Every year Amazon gives away some Kindle ebooks for free to help celebrate World Book Day. This year they’re doing things differently, but you can still get one Kindle book for free from a list of eight books published in different parts of the world. At least that’s the theory.
To claim your free Kindle ebook, just head over to the World Book Day page at Amazon. Maybe you’ll have better luck getting the promotion to work than I have because I haven’t been able to get it to work at all.
You’re supposed to be able to claim one book for free, and it’ll show a credit if it’s working properly, but all the books just show the regular price for me with no credits. There are reports of it working for other people so you might have better luck, but the promotion is definitely bugged and it might not work for you either.
For some folks it didn’t work at first but then it did after clicking around a few times on the “Learn more” button and the book pages. It’s always worked for me in previous years so I don’t know what’s going on this year.
The terms talk about activating the offer but there isn’t an “Activate” button anywhere so that doesn’t make any sense. If I click through to one of the books, sometimes there’s a World Book Day banner at the top of the page that says to click for more details, but doing so just leads to an error page. Good work, Amazon.
The promotional offer started on April 22nd so they’ve had plenty of time to fix any issues but apparently they aren’t going to. I wasn’t going to post about it but I guess it works for some people so it’s worth a try. The offer runs through April 30th so you have a few more days to claim your free ebook if you can get it to work.
via: MobileRead
Free with a membership trial is not free. I don’t know if it was meant to be truly free or just a promotion for Kindle Unlimited. It sure reads like it’s supposed to be free.
When I read the terms of the offer I understood that they gave you a credit of $4.99 towards the purchase of a book. Not that they gave you this book for free. A 2 for one sale, if you will. But then on Facebook people said they got the credit right away on the book they selected. So, I am a bit confused as to how it works. Is the book free when you get it or do they give you credit towards a future purchase?
By the way, the system is having problems when attempting to send PDFs to the Scribe using the sendtokindle services and I am having trouble with sending documents from within MS Word. Its been like this for a couple of days now. The problem with PDFs is that you can’t write on them.
At first, I wasn’t seeing any discount other than my existing $1.50 promotional credits. I clicked on the World Book Day image and the page reloaded, then I was seeing the full discount for each book. I’m not sure why that would make a difference, unless maybe some cache wasn’t clearing from the initial link?
Showing correctly for me after going back and forth. I clicked your link. Clicked on a book. No deal yet. Clicked on the banner. Then clicked on learn more under a book. Then the book page showed $0 to buy.
I followed your instructions and it works. It now shows $4.99 credit to offset the $4.99 price.
Thank you, Kimberly. Clicking on the logo did the trick for me, too.
I recieved no free offers nor nothing on its website. i remember they used to give us free 10 ebooks.