Re: [tlug] Japan to Tax E-Content

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

On 01/16/2014 08:39 AM, Darren Cook wrote:
> I think you misunderstood. I don't need to use a VPN: I could have 
> been standing in the Amazon US head office and I wouldn't have been 
> able to do the purchase of this particular book because my Amazon US 
> account has my Japanese address as the registered address, and this 
> correlates with the address on the credit card I use. In other words: 
> it is my country of residence that matters here, not my IP address. 
> You don't become a different person to commercial services just 
> because you come at them from a different router [1]. I was told the 
> only way to purchase the book was to switch my kindle to be registered 
> with a U.S. address (and show proof of living there). (The book in 
> question was set for sale only in North America; the publisher had not 
> checked the boxes to allow sale in the rest of the world. Amazon offer 
> this option as sometimes there are exotic copyright conditions like 
> that; in this case the publisher had just made a mistake.)

Is this a Kindle book?  If so, you CAN buy from amazon.com (via 
amazon.co.jp) with a Japanese address, in yen, using a Japanese payment 
method.  Have done so several times after setting up an amazon.com 
Kindle account and telling it to allow my orders to come from 
amazon.co.jp (based on my account in the US that is older than my 
account in Japan -- and BOTH default to my Japan address). Amazon.jp can 
set the redirect up in your  Kindle account for you to make that 
possible.  The information you received re: US address has never been 
said to me.

The downside is that it becomes very difficult to use amazon.co.jp in 
English.

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CL