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Old 09-22-2010, 04:08 AM   #1
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Buying Kindle books as gifts
One of the thing I've noticed now that my sister has a Kindle is that I don't seem to have an option to buy her eBooks as gifts - or at least the option isn't obvious.

For nearly every Christmas and Birthday that I can recall I have bought her at least one book.

I would like to be able to go into Amazon and buy her an eBook - but I can't really do that.

I have Kindle for PC and am waiting for my Kindle WiFi, so I suppose I could just buy for my own account, remove the DRM and then transfer to her device that way. Feels a bit like I'm giving her pirated software for a gift which is a bit odd.

I guess the other thing I can do is purchase an Amazon gift card, but sometimes gift cards feel like the easy option.

Ah - the digital age, making the complicated possible and the simple complicated.

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Old 09-22-2010, 04:21 AM   #2
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One of the thing I've noticed now that my sister has a Kindle is that I don't seem to have an option to buy her eBooks as gifts - or at least the option isn't obvious.

For nearly every Christmas and Birthday that I can recall I have bought her at least one book.

I would like to be able to go into Amazon and buy her an eBook - but I can't really do that.

I have Kindle for PC and am waiting for my Kindle WiFi, so I suppose I could just buy for my own account, remove the DRM and then transfer to her device that way. Feels a bit like I'm giving her pirated software for a gift which is a bit odd.

I guess the other thing I can do is purchase an Amazon gift card, but sometimes gift cards feel like the easy option.

Ah - the digital age, making the complicated possible and the simple complicated.

Regards
Caleb
But a gift card gives one the option of free choice or change one's mind before buying a book or something else, without having to pay for it.
I quite like that ' luxury' feel of a giftcard.

edit: you also could buy a cheap 2-nd book on a subject like " how to grow vegetables for my old age" and than put the gift card inside it, as a surprise.
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Old 09-22-2010, 05:04 AM   #3
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I did read somewhere that Amazon are working on the buying ebooks as gifts - I'd like that but as a Kindle reader, I'm also very happy to receive gift cards too. Hopefully they'll get it cracked soon.
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Old 09-22-2010, 05:51 AM   #4
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Given the huge amount of advertising Amazon are doing at the moment - with TV ads and adverts on both the trains (SouthWest Trains at least) and the London Underground - and the fact I think they are getting plenty of requests for this - it wouldn't surprise me if this suddenly happened in time for Christmas ..... we can but hope.
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There's wish list option for the Kindle Store. I just assumed that others can access that list if you wished, and buy you stuff from it.
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There's wish list option for the Kindle Store. I just assumed that others can access that list if you wished, and buy you stuff from it.
Yes they can, I did this for hubby last year. But it doesn't currently work for ebooks sadly - hopefully soon.
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This is what Kindle Books on the wishlist look like
Hopefully Amazon will eventually add the option to buy them from the wishlist ....
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Given the huge amount of advertising Amazon are doing at the moment - with TV ads and adverts on both the trains (SouthWest Trains at least) and the London Underground - and the fact I think they are getting plenty of requests for this - it wouldn't surprise me if this suddenly happened in time for Christmas ..... we can but hope.
It's amazing how things always seem to happen just in time for Christmas...
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