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Contact UsBuying and Gifting eBooks for Others
Amazon Buying and Gifting is an option to promote your eBooks by buying multiple and single copies to give to a targeted audience. You can run a social media giveaway, gift your books to readers at an event, or send copies to newsletter subscribers.
You can promote your books buying single units to send to specific people or buying multiple copies to offer to a bigger audience.
You can promote your books buying single units to send to specific people or buying multiple copies to offer to a bigger audience.
- Buy for Others – eBook gift (single copy): You can gift a single eBook. When you gift an eBook, the recipient receives a redemption code and can choose to accept your eBook gift by redeeming the code. You can also exchange it for a gift card (US only).
- Buy for Others – Prepaid eBooks (single and multiple copies): You can purchase one or multiple prepaid eBooks as a gift in a single order. We create a set of redemption links (instead of redemption codes), one for each copy of the book. The purchaser can refund any unredeemed copies within 60 days or can re-gifted at any time. Recipients cannot exchange eBooks for gift cards or other products.
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Sales Rank and Reviews for Multiple copies on Prepaid eBook
- Sales Rank: an order of multiple eBooks will be considered when evaluating sales rank. The quantity of copies within that order won't be considered
- Reviews: recipients of eBook copies from a multi-copy purchase are able to leave non-Amazon Verified Purchase reviews based on existing Community Guidelines.
Get started
To buy eBook gift (single copy) (Amazon.com and Amazon.in only):
Go to Amazon.com or Amazon.in
- Go to the eBook's detail page and find Buy for Others.
- Choose a quantity of 1.
- Enter the recipient's email address and have Amazon send the eBook to your recipient on your behalf.
To buy Prepaid eBooks (single and multiple copies) to send to others (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, Amazon.es,Amazon.com.br, Amazon.in):
- Go to the eBook's detail page and find Buy for Others.
- Choose the quantity. On Amazon.com, choose a quantity greater than 1.
- Enter recipient email address(es) to have Amazon send to the recipient(s) on your behalf (optional).
- Complete your purchase.
