You can make your new eBooks available for pre-order in Kindle Stores worldwide (except Amazon.in, where pre-orders aren't currently available). Setting a pre-order allows customers to order your eBook as early as 90 days before its release date.
Pre-ordering an item from Amazon is one way to ensure you reserve a copy of a highly anticipated movie, video game, or other item as quickly as possible. Locking in a pre-order not only guarantees you your copy, it ensures you will receive it for the lowest price available and, in many cases, on the same day the item becomes available in stores.
Payment Schedule
When you place a pre-order with Amazon, the company does not charge your card right away. Amazon verifies your card or account information and then saves the data until just before the release date. Generally, Amazon charges payments two or three days before the item's street date, in order to ensure that if the payment does not go through, you have time to correct the problem and still receive your purchase.
Price Fluctuations
When Amazon first lists an item for pre-order, it may be months before the actual release of the item in question. The company bases their pricing structure on information provided by the manufacturer, but on occasion, that price can change before the item actually ships. If the price drops, Amazon will charge you the lower price when they ship the item. If the price drops after Amazon charges your card, they will refund you the difference. However, if the price should go up, you will only pay the original, lower price for your pre-order.
Product Delivery
If you order an item with release date delivery, Amazon will ship your merchandise a few days ahead of schedule so that you will receive it on or before the item's street date. If you use a normal shipping method, your item may ship a few days before or as late as the day of release, depending on when the manufacturer releases the product. Therefore, if you are using the company's free shipping options, you may have to wait a few days before your pre-ordered product arrives. In the case of digital content, Amazon will make the download available to you on the day of release.
Cancellation Deadlines
If you place a pre-order and then later change your mind, you can cancel it by going into 'Your Account' and clicking 'View Open Orders' under the 'Order History' setting. From there, you can view all orders you have in process and cancel the pre-order. A few hours before shipping, however, Amazon will begin preparing your order, and its status will change to 'Shipping Soon.' At this point, you cannot make any changes or halt shipping, and you will have to return the item once it arrives.
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The Pre-order Price Guarantee applies to not-yet-released qualifying items.
Amazon.com's price for not-yet-released items sometimes changes between the time the item is listed for sale and the time it is released and/or shipped.
- For Physical Items: Whenever you pre-order a physical item displaying the “Pre-order Price Guarantee” message on the product detail page, the price we charge when we ship it to you will be the lowest price offered by Amazon.com between the time you placed your order and the end of the day of the release date.
- For Digital Games & Software Downloads, Kindle Books, and Amazon Music:Whenever you pre-order digital content, the price we charge you will be the lowest price offered by Amazon.com between the time you placed your order and the time the content is released.
Note:
- The Pre-order Price Guarantee applies only to items sold by Amazon.com, and, other than certain digital music albums, not to items (or prices) offered by other sellers on our site. The Pre-order Price Guarantee does not apply to any products purchased at Amazon.com’s other sites.
- The Pre-order Price Guarantee applies only to not-yet-released qualifying items. It does not apply to other product lines or to items that have already been released.
- The Pre-order Price Guarantee applies only to qualifying items displaying the offer message on their product detail pages. Items that do not display the offer message do not qualify, regardless of the nature of the items.
- The Pre-order Price Guarantee does not apply to lower prices offered through any program that requires a customer to join the program to receive the lower price.
- If your order enters the shipping process before the release date, and the price is lowered before the end of the day of the release date, we'll automatically refund your credit or debit card for the difference between the price you were charged and the release-date price within 48 hours. If the price changes before the item ships, you'll see the updated price in Your Account within 24-48 hours of the price change. If you did not use a credit or debit card to pay for your order, please Contact Us.