Kindle for PC registration problems

[Ann in Arlington]

As a Kindle author, I worry that this precludes any number of readers who don't have Kindles but want to access Kindle novels through their computers from buying titles. Of my blog visitors, I would say 3/4's don't own a Kindle but want to read books on their computer.

I think it's much more likely that only a small minority of users have problems.  It's just that they're the ones more likely to seek out a message board and post to say they have a problem.

[mesmered]

Agreed. In the hope someone can solve the problem. This issue is so frustrating on a computer!

[ReaderChris]

Hey all,

I had the exact same problem and have been fighting with this for the last half-hour (none of the solutions above worked.) Anyway, I figured out what my problem was and thought I'd post it in case some other desperate sole stumbles upon this thread looking for answers. If you have Windows Vista or 7, run the program as administrator. (For the technologically challenged: Close the program, right-click on the program icon and select "run as administrator.") It worked like a charm for me. I'm really surprised amazon doesn't have obvious instructions about this.

Thanks so much Ottotomotto!  This recommendation solved my problem.  Super surprised that even Amazon Kindle Customer Support couldn't help me -- and such a simple solution, too!

[Oscar4]

I dunno if you figured out your problem yet, but in case you haven't, here you go... I was having the same exact problem, and I had installed/uninstalled Kindle for PC several times with no luck.  It turns out that the firewall from firefox was keeping me from downloading Kindle for PC properly.  So if you installed it using firefox, this might be your problem too.  So I uninstalled it and installed it using Internet Explorer.  I have no idea why this worked, but it is working fine for me now.

Hope this helps!

Thank you very much for this arienda05.  I'm using a PC (Windows XP) and this "fix" worked for me.  I'd tried downloading from Firefox and like many others uninstalled and reinstalled it a few times.  I also needed to set proxy to "none".

Thanks