UPDATE: Jan. 9, 2024, 11:00 a.m. EST This publish has been up to date with the newest details about the Kindle Rewards level system. As of June 1, 2023, members will get three factors per greenback spent on Kindle books, and people factors will expire after three months.

Avid Kindle readers ought to go examine their Kindle Rewards steadiness proper now. They could simply have some free cash ready to be put towards a brand new guide on their 2024 studying record.

If you have not heard but, Amazon rewards Kindle customers for doing the precise factor that made them need a Kindle within the first place: studying. The Kindle Rewards Beta level system dishes out three Kindle factors for every greenback spent on Kindle books and one Kindle level for every greenback spent on print books (excluding textbooks, magazines, newspapers, audiobooks, and digital subscriptions). Each 300 factors is become $3 in Kindle guide credit.

300 factors sounds steep till you understand that almost all particular person Kindle guide purchases are a simple 40 to 50 factors. (Should you go the print route, you are still taking a look at 20 to 30 factors, plus a brand new espresso desk ornament.) The 300-point milestone might be reached each six or seven books, which can not take ceaselessly relying on how a lot you learn. Be looking out for bonus offerers in addition to the occasional double or triple factors days.

Methods to begin utilizing Kindle Rewards

Kindle Rewards does not require sign-up, and technically does not even require a Kindle. (You’ll be able to learn the books you purchase on Amazon in your cellphone or pill in order for you.) All Amazon customers are eligible, no matter their standing as a Kindle Limitless member, which is unrelated. Shopping for your first Kindle E-book or eligible print guide routinely kicks off the points-earning course of.

You will discover your Kindle Rewards factors on the rewards web page on the internet model of Amazon, as you may’t purchase a Kindle guide instantly from the Kindle app or Amazon app.

To search out potential factors that might be earned on a guide you are eyeing, merely take a look at the Amazon itemizing for that guide. So long as you are logged into your Amazon account, Kindle Rewards factors values ought to present up by the costs for every guide. For example, Britney Spears’ memoir would earn 51 factors if bought as a Kindle guide or 21 factors if you happen to opted for the hardcover model.

The high quality print is that after factors are earned, you might have three months to redeem them. This wasn’t at all times the case, however a June 2023 change to the Kindle Rewards program put a three-month expiration date on Kindle factors. Nevertheless, that implies that factors from a guide you acquire final season should be round — we would go examine if we had been you.