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Offline dolan
01 Nov 2012, 10:10 PM | Post: #1

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Guardian subscription

Hi everyone.
I have just bought a Kindle Fire HD, and while still getting used to it, I am impressed. However, today I have had a major row with the Kindle Fire help group over the phone. They say that my Guardian subscription can't be sent to the kindle fire. They say that the format is not compatible. That does not make sense to me and it is not true. They have sent it to me for the last few days because I have complained. They say that I can't have it in the future: it will have to go to my old kindle. Has anyone else had this problem? I would not have bought the Fire if I had known this was the case.
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Offline frogplate Reading Scar Night - Alan Campbell
01 Nov 2012, 11:01 PM | Post: #2

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RE: Guardian subscription

It's available for Kindle for Android. So, it might be possible to:
  • Install the Kindle app on the Fire
  • Create a new Amazon account for use by the Android app
  • Buy the Grauniad using the new account and read on the Kindle app

I don't have a Fire so don't know if Amazon blocks the Kindle app from running on the Fire.

By the way I think it's the publisher who decides which devices the newspaper can be displayed on. They seem to block only the earlier Kindles, Fire devices and the Kindle app for the PC. For the Fires and PC it's probably not for technical reasons. Perhaps they are trying to guide readers to use other ways of accessing the content - possibly native apps or the mobile site.

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Jonathan

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