Amazon has an option that not everyone knows about: the gift Kindle books to someone else. Do you want to know exactly how the service works and what you have to do? Well, that's why we're here: to explain Step by Step what do you have to do if you want to have a detail with an acquaintance who loves reading. She continues reading.
Amazon's great library
The essence of Amazon, beyond the gigantic showcase that it currently is, is found in its library. The company has a catalog immense number of books to read, either in print or ebook format (electronic book). The latter have undoubtedly revolutionized our way of consuming: in addition to the immediacy of your purchase (with just a couple of clicks you can have it downloaded to your device), the concept allows you to carry hundreds of books and choose the one you want to read when you want and where you want without regretting for having left the novel on duty at home.
Of course, the fact that we no longer buy physical books also has some other negative point, such as the fact that now fewer books are given away than before (Overall, it is no longer about something "material" to deliver into someone's hands). To try to solve this situation, the almighty Amazon has a function that not everyone knows about and that is that it also allows you to give away electronic books, being able to send them to the person you want.
We explain how to do it.
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It seems incredible but with the number of options that Amazon has, the option of give away kindle books it is relatively recent. So much so that not many know that the e-commerce giant allows you to buy e-books for your Kindles and give them directly to another person.
Platform users can thus purchase the ebook they want and send it to the recipient (or recipients) they want with a personal message through the so-called function "Buy for Others" that appears on the Kindle book purchase page. Remember that this format can be read both on the Amazon Kindle -electronic book readers- and through the application (free) Kindle, which also allows you to read titles on both phones and tablets - it is compatible with both Android As with iOS, in case you wonder.
Do you already have someone in mind who you would like to surprise with this gift? So take note of the steps you must follow to purchase and send a book to someone:
- Head over to the Amazon Book Store, and enter the Kindle section - You can also enter directly into a book and choose the format, wow.
- Choose or search for the book you are interested in and click on it.
- One time inside the book sheet, make sure Kindle Format is selected, and then look in the right column.
- You will see that under the box that brings together the options of "Buy with one click" and "Send to a device" there is another specific one in which you can read "Buy for others«. Choose the amount (you can buy several at the same time for several people) and click on "Continue".
- It will ask you to add your credit card details. Enter them and press “Continue”.
- You'll see a prompt to add your recipient's email (although if you don't, you'll receive a redemption link that you can provide yourself), include a sender, and a message (optional). If there are several recipients, you will have to include them all in the same data box (also if you do not, you will receive the corresponding redemption link to deliver it as you wish). You have a screenshot just below.
- All you have to do is click on "Process order" and that's it.
You should be aware that only recipients in Spain can redeem these Kindle books and that if you have a promotional code or gift certificate, both are valid to be used in this purchase, before processing the order. We have little more to explain here.
Now you only have to choose well and surprise someone. Happy shopping.
Give money or infinite readings
Another alternative you have is not choosing the book that you are going to give away and resorting to a card with the balance necessary for the other person to be the one to take that title from the one he is after. Actually, these congratulations are like an Amazon gift card but those of Jeff Bezos, aware of the exclusivity that many Kindle users are looking for, have preferred to give them a radically different appearance from one of those cards that we can load with the balance that we need and that they are more vague and not so focused on the noble hobby of reading.
Moreover, this physical format, on paper, we can send it days before the indicated date to make the gift via Amazon delivery man, so we will leave the decision to choose what he wants to read on those days in the hands of the giftee. It could be more impersonal than if we directly recommend a book by an author that we love, but what matters is the final result, since if we top up 20 or 30 euros we are going to allow our friend or family member to buy not one, but two or three different ebooks.
Another alternative is to put in the amount of money needed to pay for two months of Kindle Unlimited and that the gifted take three (the first is a trial) for 19,98 euros, during which time they will have access to thousands of titles from countless authors with this flat rate. It is true that important news is missing but, at least, you will have such a large collection of classics that you will not have hours of the day left to enjoy reading. And if you want to be more splendid, you have specific offers for six months of subscription for 29,97 euros (until July 31, 2022).
These cards expire after 10 years. and we can recharge them with fixed amounts of 10, 20, 30, 50 or 100 euros, or whatever we want. After all, even under the guise of the Kindle e-book store, it is possible to use what is left over for any other purchase within the Amazon website itself.
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