Buying A Kindle Book For Someone Abroad?

[countrykid]

Can you buy a Kindle book from Amazon UK for someone who lives say in Sweden. He would be using his PC to read the book I think. Just like buying any normal book as a gift, I'm sure there has to be a way, but may be not if the recipient is abroad, although I'd have thought the actual technology lends itself to doing just that.

I know sweet nothing about this subject, so any help is appreciated. Thanks

[Samuraisan]

I don't think so country kid. I have a kindle and live in Spain. I have to buy my books through Amazon España.

[jourdain2]

Don't try! I'm in the middle of a bit of a Kindle nightmare. OH bought me a Kindle from Amazon UK. We live in France. Just try to set it up and order books. Yes, please try and if you discover how, let me know--- pleeeze! Waiting to get back to UK next year and hope that the kids can sort it out for me.

[Jomlett]

You can send a Kindle Gift Card...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000664443

[countrykid]

May thanks. I clicked on the Gift Card link but from what I read in the T&Cs the gift card cannot be used to purchase from any other Amazon website just Amazon UK. This seems crazy as surely the simplicity of EBooks lends itself to sharing with friends abroad rather than posting a heavy book. Perhaps it's to do with Copyright laws.

[countrykid]

Hi Jourdain2, I empathise with you! It's not looking good but if I find a way I'll let you know

[jourdain2]

TA!

[Rosetta]

I tried to buy kindle books for my aunt in Switzerland and was advised I would have to do it via Amazon Germany, this included getting her a gift certificate. I gave up in the end, it was a nightmare. If you find an easy solution please let us know, I still think it would be a good idea

[Buenchico]

Be very careful. Amazon have been known to remotely wipe the entire content of someone's Kindle (and to ban them from ever downloading any further content) simply because they'd inadvertently purchased a book from outside of the area where their device was registered:
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/ereaders/1295416/amazons-kindle-platform-under-scrutiny-for-customer-ban

[JoolsTwo]

Don't know if this helps

http://www.amazon.com/Sweden-Europe-History-Books/b?ie=UTF8&;node=4979

I use Amazon.ca to buy for my daughter who lives in Canada.

[Jomlett]

Apparently using Amazon.com Gift Cards to Sweden is possible...I've not tried it, though.

http://www.amazon.com/gift-cards/b?ie=UTF8&node=2238192011

[SteveD]

Here in Belgium, it is only possible to buy e-books from Amazon.com (i.e. the USA). This means that British books are American versions. There is a website where you can check, for example, the language differences between the British and American versions of the Harry Potter books. This situation is ridiculous because we can buy and have delivered here, physical books from Amazon UK but we can't buy the e-book versions.

[SteveD]

Here is just one of the sites I mentioned above:

https://www15.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/potter.html