Officially, you can’t combine the accounts later.

🙂 Your SO has already bought twenty books before your Kindle arrives.Īre you going to put your Kindle on your SO’s account (giving you access to the twenty books previously bought, and giving you both access to the books you buy in the future), or are you going to put in on your account? You’ve each got your own Amazon account…it’s how the two of you keep gifts secret from each other. They just have to take turns…just like with a paperbook.īut let’s say your Significant Other already has a Kindle and an Amazon account. Some books have fewer device licenses (I’ve seen as few as 1), some are unlimited (those tend to be public domain ((not under copyright protection)) or independently published through Amazon’s Digital Text Platform).Įven if the book has one license, though, all of the people on your account can read it. Unless it says otherwise on the book’s Amazon Product Page, the number of devices on which you can have the book at the same time is six. But you can only have the book on so many devices on the account at the same time. Yes, you can have a hundred people or more on you account. That’s on how many devices* you have the book simultaneously. There’s another major limitation, and that one is set by the publisher, on a per book basis. You can pay for it, and your kids and grandkids and coworkers and friends can all read it. It doesn’t matter if the person who bought the book, the person who paid for it, is on the account any more or not. Kindle books belong to the account on which they were purchased. You can pay $9.99 for a bestseller from the Kindle store and share it with one hundred people (more if you like)…entirely legally…within the rules. You have to decide on which account you want the Kindle.ĭon’t let anybody tell you otherwise. If it is, you can buy books for it…but wait a minute! There’s an important decision to make besides, “What am I going to read first?” Just check to see if it’s registered to your account already at 😉 You can even buy them before your Kindle arrives. Buying Kindle books is super-easy (maybe a little too easy). Stop! Before you buy your first Kindle book…Ī lot of you have Kindles on the way.

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