How readers get your advance copy on their Kindle
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Tick Send to Kindle on a campaign and Booklabria e-mails the watermarked EPUB to each approved reader's own Kindle address, up to five sends per copy. It needs the EPUB, you see Sent to Kindle and the date but never the address, and readers set it up once.
The short answer
Many readers read on a Kindle. Send to Kindle puts your advance copy there without a file passing between you and the reader.
Turn it on
In the campaign wizard, step How will readers get it?, tick Send to Kindle. You can tick it alone or with Read on Booklabria and Protected download. With more than one way ticked, each approved reader picks one. The way needs the EPUB: if you have only a PDF, the wizard says so and you add the EPUB or untick that way.
What the reader does
Once, the reader saves their own Kindle address (it ends in @kindle.com or @free.kindle.com) and adds our sending address to Amazon's approved list. Then they press Send to Kindle on their copy. Their side is described in Sending an advance copy to your Kindle.
What happens
- We e-mail the watermarked EPUB as an attachment, never a link. It usually arrives within a few minutes.
- Each copy allows five sends. Every send is logged (which copy, when, how big); the log does not keep the address.
- A book above the e-mail size limit cannot be sent; the reader is told and pointed to the download.
What you see
Sent to Kindle and the date on that reader's row. You do not see the Kindle address, and you do not see reading progress, because a Kindle cannot report it. If you want progress by chapter, offer Read on Booklabria as well.
Protection
The copy carries the same hidden watermark as a download: a code tied to that reader's copy, never their name or e-mail. See How to protect advance copies.
Where this lives
Related
- How to run an ARC campaign, step by step: The short guide: pick the book and its EPUB, choose how readers get it (read on Booklabria, a protected download or Send to Kindle), say who it is for, set the dates and spots, launch, then decide requests and watch the funnel. Free during the beta; readers never pay.
- Sending an early copy to your Kindle: When an author offers Send to Kindle, Booklabria e-mails the watermarked EPUB to your own Kindle address. Set it up once: save your Kindle address (name@kindle.com or name@free.kindle.com) and add our sending address to Amazon's Approved Personal Document E-mail List. Each copy can be sent five times, every send is logged, and the author sees that it was sent, never your address. If it does not arrive, check the approved list and the address, then send again.
- ARC delivery and tracking: You choose per campaign how readers receive the book: Read on Booklabria (the file stays on the server, readers open it on the site or in the app, and the Reading tab shows progress by chapter, who finished and where readers stop, as counts), a Protected download (signed links that expire after fifteen minutes, five downloads per approval, every EPUB watermarked) or Send to Kindle (we e-mail the watermarked EPUB to the reader's own Kindle address, five sends per approval). Tick one or more; with two or more, each approved reader picks one. Upload the EPUB or PDF on the Delivery tab; reading on Booklabria and Send to Kindle need the EPUB. The Activity tab notes approvals, downloads and reviews as they happen; the analytics funnel shows how many downloads became reviews.
- How to protect your advance copies from piracy: Booklabria keeps your file off public addresses, ties every copy to one reader with a hidden watermark (never their name), expires download links after fifteen minutes, limits each copy to five downloads or sends, and lets you keep the file on our servers with Read on Booklabria. Here is what each does and what to choose.
- Delivery links, codes and certified sends: a protected copy to your own readers: A delivery link (or its QR code) hands a protected copy of your book to readers you already have, outside any campaign and with no review owed, on the Creator plan and above. From Studio, Advance copies, Deliver to your readers: choose the book, how readers get it (read on Booklabria, a protected download, Send to Kindle, or a choice of them), how many copies, how long the link accepts claims, an optional password, who can claim, and a note. Revoking stops new claims only; claimed copies stay readable and count toward the readers your plan allows. A campaign can also send certified copies to addresses you know; a send counts as a reader once it is claimed.
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