Kindle Books as a gift to someone without a Kindle

[BarkingGhostar]

I would like to buy a Kindle book as a gift for someone. I have a well-used Amazon account. The gift recipient has a Nexus 7 with the Kindle app installed and a registered Amazon account (they have never purchased anything with that account).

Can I buy a Kindle book with my account and gift it to someone without them accessing any bit of my account information? Mind you I have never bought electronic content before.

 

[Viper GTS]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200555070

The short answer is yes.

Viper GTS

 

[Ravynmagi]

To my knowledge, I don't know of any way. Closest thing would be to give them an Amazon gift card.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I signed in and purchased a book through the Amazon Kindle store, and used the Give As Gift button. Purchase made.

I then went into the Nexus 7 tablet, configured the gift recipient's email, d/l the Amazon email regarding the gift, went through the acceptance process (logging into Amazon as the gift recipient), and was told all was good.

The email received by the gift recipient states the gift can now be enjoyed via the Kindle or Kindle app, but nothing on how the Kindle app retrieves it.

Left email app and opened up Kindle (for Android) app and nothing. No option to d/l gift. In fact, the app implies the only way to get content is if you purchase it through the app.

 

[vshah]

try pressing menu and then "sync"

 

[BarkingGhostar]

It syncs, but nothing is there. If I go back onto my PC and log into Amazon using the gift giver's credentials, it says it is sending the gift to the correct recipient, but at the wrong email address. This is strange because the gift recipient email address was used correctly, and the gift recipient's email account received the email of the gift.

I'm getting the feeling that the actual gift was sent to the wrong entity. I even uninstalled the Kindle app previously installed from the Android store and used the Amazon link to reinstall it. It is syncing.

BTW, in the Settings screen there is a Send to Kindle E-mail address, which is an address that is neither the gift giver nor the gift recipient. It is the gift recipient's name with a appended number at a kindle.com domain.

Should I have used this Send to Kindle E-mail address instead? I'm thinking I've just wasted $10 and need to go buy the wife the paperback and throw it at her and forget the e-content crap.

 

[NutBucket]

Does it show up in your wife's amazon account?

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I figured out what is going on. During the acceptance of the gift there is no instruction to the recipient to log into their Amazon account, go to Manage My Kindle, and explicitly instruct Amazon to Deliver To My ... device, which in this case is a virtual device (Android Kindle app).

I guess Amazon just assumes you are use to this, but nowhere is this made known. Maybe this is because most Kindle book purchases are through the Kindle hardware and not Kindle app.