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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Hi. An author and I checked out the gifted book as a verified purchase. For good or bad, those books do not show as a verified purchase and are also in a separate section in "manage my content and devices".
The only way to get the verified purchase tag would be to send the reviewer a gift card and then have them buy the book. (Not sure on the legality of this idea. )
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This is, essentially, how the gifting works. You go to Amazon's book page, the same web page that anybody else would see, and you buy the book as a gift for someone. You input their email address, etc. Amazon sends them a notification, via email, that they've been gifted a book. (This is the same as gifting them anything else that they click on, rather than receive in a box.) Inside that email is a link that they click to "redeem this gift." They go to Amazon and click to buy the book.
It's nothing BUT a gift certificate. I know this because a) I've gifted books and b) I've received gifted books. That's how it works.
The recipient can also click the link and
NOT redeem the gift certificate for the book for which it was intended.
They could buy something else with it. It's really nothing but an Amazon gift certificate, when all is said and done.
The books that I receive as gifts
show up in my purchases list.
If someone sends me a book via EMAIL, however--an email directly to my Kindle, then, yes, of course,
it's only in "manage my content and devices." That's exactly what happens if you were to send someone a book via their Kindle email, OR, if you sent it to them directly, as a MOBI file, and they sideload it to their Kindle. But if you send them an actual gift certificate-book, using the "Give as a Gift" button (beneath the free sample box), it's redeemed. That's the difference.
Hitch