Amazon D00111 Managing Your Kindle on Amazon.com, Managing Your Device, Managing Your Orders

The following describes the "buy box" actions:

Buy now with 1-Click:— click this button to purchase a Kindle book or current periodical issue. Your order will be auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle in under a minute.

Subscribe now with 1-Click— click this button to start a newspaper, magazine or blog subscription with a 14-day free trial. Your subscription will be auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle. You can cancel at any time during your 14-day free trial and you will not be charged.

Send sample now — click this button to receive a free sample of a book on your Kindle. You can read the beginning of the book for free. If you enjoy it, you can make a purchase directly from your Kindle or return to the Kindle Store on Amazon.com if you prefer to purchase from your computer.

9.2 Managing Your Kindle on Amazon.com

This section gives you instructions on how to find and use the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.com. The Manage Your Kindle page is a versatile online tool you can use to view and manage your Kindle content, personal settings and account information. It can be found at:

http://www.amazon.com/manageyourkindle

Here are some of the tasks you can manage:

Managing Your Device

Register/Deregister your Kindle — registers your Kindle to your personal Amazon.com account or disassociates Kindle from your account if you transfer ownership of the device to someone else.

Personalize your Kindle — manages the same options available on Kindle's Settings menu such as the name that appears on the top of your Kindle Home screen.

Give your Kindle an e-mail address — allows you to give your Kindle an e-mail address so you and people you authorize can send e-mail attachments to read on the device. The attachment will be converted and delivered wirelessly to your Kindle. A small fee per e-mailed attachment will be applied to cover wireless delivery charges. See Chapter 8 for more information on converting personal documents.

Enter approved e-mail addresses — allows you to maintain a list of e-mail addresses authorized to send e-mail attachments to Kindle.

Managing Your Orders

View delivery status — view the status of recently ordered books and your subscriptions to determine what content has recently been delivered wirelessly to your Kindle.

Change your default 1-Click payment method — allows you to update the payment method Kindle uses to make purchases on Amazon.com. All Kindle transactions are completed with 1-Click.