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Hi,
Actually I tried that first. I am Canadian but there is no Chapters store anywhere in my home town (closest one is about 50km away). Before I drove to the store to buy the gift card, I called Kobo bookstore and asked if they would accept a Chapters/Indigo gift card to purchase books online with. (FYI: Chapters/Indigo is one of the companies that started the Kobo ebook store).
I was told they would not. So I asked if they (Kobo books) had a gift card I could use instead and was told they have "Coupons" but not Gift Cards.
So next I called Amazon and asked if I could use an Amazon.ca gift card to purchase Kindle ebooks online with (I have Kindle for iPad also) and then said no. I then asked what if I bought an Amazon.com gift card instead, would I be able to purchase ebooks with it online from Canada (just to be sure). No one at Amazon.com seemed to be able to answer that question. I was put on hold twice and transferred twice and finally got to a Kindle specialist and then they said they would have to check and would I hold yet again. I finally just hung up the phone.
Given how much money companies make from gift cards (especially when forgotten or lost cards are included), it seems quite strange how hard it has been for my wife to simply get me a "book" given I have moved to ebooks!
Oh well! It is clear the ebook store really haven't learned the basics of running a successful business. Hopefully when the shakeout happens, one of them will figure things out.
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