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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Can't you do the usual wishlist thing, where someone puts something on their wishlist and you buy it for them? Does that not apply to ebooks?
I'm not sure I'd want the ability for people to send me unsolicited gifts electronically.
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I have three ebooks in my wishlist at Amazon. Next to each of them is the note "This item cannot be purchased as a gift at this time." The popup window next to that note reads, "While gifting is not yet offered in the Kindle store, we are working to make it available in the near future." It's a nuisance, but as of last winter, no ebook sellers offered anything better.
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Originally Posted by Lexicon
You could avoid the issues involved with people sending you unsolicited ebooks by having the reading system notify you and giving you the option to:
1. Accept the gift and download it to the device.
2. Accept the gift but hold it on Amazon's servers for now.
3. Reject the gift and refund the money to the purchaser.
1 would cover most cases I expect. 3 is obviously a bit rude but should probably be there as an option just in case.
2 is the interesting one. Amazon could implement a system for exchanging undownloaded books, so you could virtually "take back" an unwanted ebook and choose another instead.
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I think these are good options. #2 might as well be "accept the value of the gift," though. It's sort of like exchanging a gift at a store, e.g. when a sweater is the wrong size, or two people got you the same CD.