Okay gang, the big day is drawing near and you still want to get a few more gifts but don't know what to buy, or don't want to go out into the stores which have already pulled down half of their displays and are lining up Spring stuff. What to do, what to do... how about giving someone a good book to read on their Kindle? It's fast, easy, and you can have it delivered on Christmas Day and know it will arrive on time...
Didn't know you could do this? Neither did I for the longest time. I only found out a couple of years ago when we released "The Vampyre Blogs - Coming Home". I found myself rewarding some of our beta-readers with a free copy of the finished product in whatever form they wished (trade paperback, Kindle, PDF). Most requested a signed trade paperback, but a couple asked for the Kindle version.
So I headed over to Amazon, got into my account, and pulled up "The Vampyre Blogs - Coming Home". Once there I quickly found the "Give As A Gift" button and clicked it. From there I was taken to another screen which asked me to sign into my Amazon account, which I did. From there I was taken to a final screen
This screen asked only for the e-mail address of the recipient I was sending this book to AND what day I wanted it delivered. It was the option of a delivery date that really caught my eye. Now some of you might be thinking, "Duh, you never noticed this before?" And the answer is "Obviously, I didn't. I rarely gave e-books as gifts to anyone before, even though I'm one of the authors. Most of my readers buy the books for themselves and hardly anyone in my family owns a Nook or Kindle." So yes, this was new to me and very exciting.
So now I have this huge new avenue for holiday shopping before me. And with Black Friday and Cyber Monday looming on the horizon, I thought it important to share these options with all of you. Some of you may have known about all this, but for those (like me) who didn't you now have more options when it comes to shopping for gifts. I personally love the idea of having a book to place in someone's 'Cyber Stocking'.
So for anyone who didn't know about this option, now you do. And the best part is you can do that kind of shopping right now. The e-book will not arrive before the date you set.
Of course, being an author I'm going to shamelessly promote our books by providing links below so you can visit our author pages on Amazon, where all our books are listed and you can choose whichever one(s) you'd like to gift to the readers in your life.
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Thanks for tuning in and don't be afraid to leave suggestions or ideas about gifting books that I overlooked in this post, in the comments section below. Until next time, take care and keep writing.
