What exactly does this mean?
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You can register up to 6 Kindles to one Amazon account.
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The kindles all share the books and subscriptions on that account.
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Of course, purchasing is through that one account – so you either
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Have everyone ask that one person to buy books and pay them; OR
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Have everyoone’s credit card information stored with that one account and purchase your books from your credit card; OR
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Setup another way to share price of Books.
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Obviously, this works better with family and really close friends.
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Note that the same Amazon account is also used for other Amazon purchases – so be careful and think things through before sharing (even with your brother
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That brings us to a separate question – How do I share a book I have?
A: You can’t really if it’s a book you bought from Amazon + the person’s Kindle is not registered to the same account as your Kindle. If, on the other hand, its a free book that you got off another site, then you can freely share. Or you can just point them to the website.
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***** Correction***** Subscriptions to magazines and newspapers can NOT be shared! They are all associated with a specific Kindle. However, they can be transferred among the 6 registered Kindles on a single account. I have verified this with Kindle support.
Earl
Earl,
I just bought a Kindle and love it. My husband wants one, too. I guess we’ll set up the account to download different subscriptions to the different Kindles. Does that sound like a workable strategy? What is the process for sharing books?
yes – you can setup different subscriptions to go to different kindles.
for sharing books – just register up to 6 kindles to one account and download the book to each.
you can do it at the ‘Manage Your Kindle’ section.
Thanks…