
I had an Amazon account with a my business email address. I wish I knew this sooner, however there is nothing I could do either way now that the damage is done. Think about the accounts that you set up with our online friends! You may be living with them for a long time to come. If you send a Kindle book as a gift to a Kindle user, they’ll only get it on their Kindle if you send it to the email address associated with their library! Send it to the wrong address and it won’t reach the Kindle. A Kindle book can be sent to anyone with an email address. This will assume more significance now that Amazon allows Kindle books to be given as a gift. Over time, it will fill up and be even more personal.

This isn’t a crisis.Īt the moment, though, when my wife looks at her Kindle, this is how it looks. Amazon will soon announce a way to loan Kindle books for short periods, so she’ll be able to read them on her Kindle instead of having to borrow mine. We still own the books, she can still read them. Which is a lovely book, I’m told! It just diverges from my tastes in, roughly, every conceivable way. The books that she bought and read and loved until now – they’re mine.

You can transfer a Kindle to someone else any time, but you cannot transfer your books. The books that you purchase for your Kindle are locked to your Amazon account – your email address.You can switch the Kindle from one account to another readily, at any time, either from the Kindle or from the Amazon page set up to manage your Kindle.

A Kindle is associated with an Amazon account.They can be linked together to share an Amazon Prime subscription, but each person can separately keep a shopping cart, a wish list, etc. Each person in your family can have a separate Amazon account.Amazon has set up a “ Media Library” where you can review all of the purchases you’ve made over the years. Your Amazon purchases are associated with your email address. Amazon is setting up an ecosystem built around your purchases of books, ebooks, music, movies, and all the other things it sells.Follow along and you’ll understand my wife’s Amazing Vanishing Library trick. I didn’t understand the consequences of that when I bought a Kindle for my wife a couple of years ago. Be careful when you set up accounts and make purchases! These are turning into long-term relationships that need to be right.Ī concrete example: buy Kindle ebooks from Amazon using the email address of the person who will read them. Our online purchases and subscriptions and services are associated with accounts linked to an email address.
