Buying Kindle books at Amazon, steps to do

You buy your books, magazines and newspapers online at the amazon.com website, paying with a credit card. Once the purchase is made you’ll have a chance to have it sent wirelessly or downloaded to your computer. Of course in the Philippines the Kindle wireless option does not work, so you choose to download your purchases. After you press the download button the download starts and when complete the file appears on your desktop. Then you connect your Kindle to your computer with the supplied cable. Turn on your Kindle and its icon appears as a drive on your desktop. Then you drag and drop the downloaded files to the Kindle. Next time you use your Kindle the new documents will be in the Kindle library, ready to use.

Amazon has announced a new international version of the Kindle which, according to Amazon, works wirelessly in the Philippines and around the world.

Kindle offers a work-around, and not only for books.   Using the Kindle I can have the current issue of the Financial Times with my morning coffee — or of course any one of a dozen other foreign papers. Sure, I can read these on my computer, but the user interface and especially the portability of the Kindle is superior to my laptop.

The Kindle is another technology (along with DSL and Skype) that helps make the life of the expat even better.  Now you can live in the most remote provincial location* and read the New York Timeswith your breakfast.  That’s progress!

If you buy a Kindle and use it overseas, be sure to get an extra battery. There are lots of complaints about short battery life on the Amazon web site.

No, the Kindle wireless feature via the Sprint cellular network in the U.S. definitely does not work in the Philippines or, as I understand it, anywhere else but in the U.S. I just meant that I was able to activate the Kindle unit and purchase content via downloads from the Amazon website. Not as convenient as the Whispernet but very workable.

By the way, may I ask how you did this? I mean activating the Kindle unit and purchasing content straight from the Amazon Kindle website through the Globe network?

We just logged into our pre-existing amazon.com account at the Amazon web site, went to the “Kindle Store section, then the “Manage Your Kindle” tab, and then register your Kindle unit. No problems. By the way, we longer have Globe DSL. We moved to a more rural area and now use SmartBro wireless Internet. That works fine with Kindle too

you have to have a U.S.A. issued credit card. Others have reported success with gift cards but maybe Amazon has blocked that work around. Let’s hope that Amazon will expand Kindle services world wide.
Does Kindle recognize other ebook files that are not purchased in kindle?

As I were browing sulit.com, I saw sellers who offer ebooks files in cheap prices and and I’m wondering if these files are readable by Kindle. Is it possible to read them using kindle?

Is is like itunes wherein you can buy songs online at the same time you can rip your own music?
Yes, Kindle can read these formats:
* Documents: Kindle (.AZW, .AZW1). Text (.TXT), Unprotected Mobipocket (.MOBI, .PRC)
* Audible: Audible (.AA, .AAX)
* Music: MP3 (.MP3)

Remember that the mobipocket book must not have DRM protection.
You can also send personal documents (.doc, .txt, .pdf) to be converted to AZW format. I had my resume, scripts, librettos and music pieces converted and it looks really nice in my new Kindle 2. But looks ugly in my Kindle 1  These comments from the blog   http://goiloilo.com/kindle-philippines/