Amazon has announced that just in time for the holiday season, customers can give Kindle Books as gifts to anyone with an e-mail address–no Kindle required. Kindle Books can be read on Kindle devices and free Kindle reading apps for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry and Android-based devices. For more information or to give a Kindle Book as a gift, go to www.amazon.com/givekindlebooks.
“We are thrilled to make it easier than ever for our customers to give their favorite Kindle book to a friend or family member as a gift,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. “We’re making this functionality available in time for the holidays to offer an easy, stress free holiday shopping option for anyone – not just Kindle owners.”
To give a Kindle Book as a gift, customers simply choose a book in the Kindle Store, select “Give as a Gift” and send their gift to anyone with an email address. Notifications of Kindle Books gifts are delivered instantly via e-mail and the recipient redeems the gift in the Kindle Store to read on any Kindle or free Kindle app.
Just in time for holiday gift-giving, Amazon editors’ picks for the best books of the year are:
- “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
- “Faithful Place: A Novel” by Tana French
- “Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War” by Karl Marlantes
- “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand
- “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson
- “Freedom: A Novel” by Jonathan Franzen
- “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson
- “To the End of the Land” by David Grossman
- “Just Kids” by Patti Smith
- “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” by Michael Lewis
