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Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies

Posted by timothy on from the just-give-us-the-money-and-nobody-gets-hurt dept.

Mike writes "If you buy a Kindle and some Kindle ebooks from Amazon, be careful of returning items. Amazon decided that one person had returned too many things, so they suspended his Amazon account, which meant that he could no longer buy any Kindle books, and any Kindle subscriptions he's paid for stop working. After some phone calls, Amazon granted him a one-time exception and reactivated his account again." Take this with as much salt as you'd like.

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  1. Not Entirely True by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Informative
    Maybe he should have followed the link of the first reply's signature? From that site:

    Myth:

    If you buy a Kindle, you are locked into Amazon's Kindle store.

    Truth:

    There are many sources for books that can be read on the Kindle.

    Some Free Sites (Public Domain / Creative Commons)

    MobileRead.com (look for .mobi books you can download to your computer or download the MobiGuide and get your books via Whispernet) Feedbooks.com (books can be downloaded to your computer or if you download their Kindle Guide you can get your books via Whispernet - they even have a video on how to use the guide) Manybooks.net (when you download to your computer, look for Kindle format or Mobipocket) 1001Books (download books to your computer or directly from your Kindle browser)

    Some Pay Sites

    Fictionwise.com (look for .mobi books but NOT Secure Mobipocket books) BooksonBoard.com (register your Kindle's PID and you can download any .mobi from their Overdrive servers - to learn more about this see the Visual Kindle Guide wiki) Baen.com (great site for Sci-Fi books which offers free as well as low cost books)

    So your Kindle is still somewhat useful. I would hope that more competition arises and Amazon removes its Kindle services from its e-book services so as to avoid a nasty inevitable anti-trust suit.

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    My work here is dung.
  2. Re:Just another reason to not support DRM by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please don't mod me redundant; I feel that if someone from Amazon sees this, they need to see multiple people saying it:

    I too was planning on buying a Kindle, but will never do so if my ability to use it is at the whim of someone other than myself.