It is widely believed that there is no way to buy ebooks, apps, music etc outside US from Amazon. It must be a great shame and mystery as to why Amazon would like to forego the non-US market.

BUT we believe that we have found ways to buy books, apps and music  from Amazon App store for your Kindle fire. Yes, you can  access the rich Amazon ecosystem even though you are not residing in the US!

If you are interested to get free contents for your kindle fire from elsewhere, you can refer to the link here. This post only concerns with how to get contents from Amazon.

The trick here is to get your Amazon account to behave like a US account. Kindle Fire ( or any other Kindles) is just a gateway to access your content on Amazon cloud and Amazon– with the possible exception of video streaming– doesn’t honestly care where your device is. And you are not required to root your device whatsoever.

Here are the steps you can try, based on our experiments and on what other people has found out:

  1. Register a new Amazon account with a new email address, this is for “safety” purpose.
  2. Go to here (fakenamegenerator.com), grab a fake US name, credit card, addresses and all other information.
  3. Apply the information on the newly created Amazon account, make sure that for this account, you use the fake US name, fake credit card, billing addresses and so on. The only thing that needs to be real is your email address. All others must follow what is generated from the above website.
  4. And note that you cannot assign more than one address or more than one credit card to this Amazon account. If you already do, please delete all the non-US addresses, credit cards and so on.
  5. For your convenience,  turn on 1-Click and REMEMBER to SET your payment method & preferred billing address in 1-Click Settings.
  6. You are ready download free apps, free e-books, free magazines, free music because Amazon won’t check on your credit card until you really buy something that require cold, hard cash. You can’t buy apps using this fake credit card information, of course.
  7. To buy books, magazines, apps etc, use another Amazon account to buy a gift card, and send the gift card to the newly created Amazon account, now your account has some money! Pay with your Malaysia credit card and MUST choose US Billing Address registered earlier.
  8. Upon receiving the Amazon.com Gift card email, follow the email instruction to enter the Claim Code to your Amazon account. You can start buying digital contents from Amazon Store now.

That’s it! Via this way we manage to buy books, buy music, buy apps from Amazon App Store without using VPN. Good luck!

Here are some of the apps that are available on my Kindle fire, note that I download them from the Amazon cloud:

 

And if you definitely absolutely must get the streaming video to work because you have a Amazon Prime account, we have tips for you as well!