# Did you get a credit from the Amazon e-books settlement? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977 "2016-06-21T18:47:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/61 "2016-06-23T17:08:25Z")
I received about $10. It was unexpected for me as well. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/62 "2016-06-23T17:28:06Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > Yup, that’s pretty much what I intend to do. I know my “boycott” of Amazon isn’t entirely logical, but hey it’s my little stand against Evil Corporate America™. Yeah, I have an Evil Television Network™ that I refuse to watch. It’s not logical either, and I get some flack for it (“Why that particular network, when the evil is pretty much evenly spread around?”) but it makes me feel like I’m _doing something_. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/63 "2016-06-23T17:38:11Z")
$12. I don’t even know why, but I’ll take it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/64 "2016-06-23T18:04:44Z")
I got $1.57. I’ll try not to spend it all in one place. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/65 "2016-06-23T18:42:01Z")
$60 and change. What to buy, what to buy!?!? _squee_ ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/66 "2016-06-23T19:27:19Z")
w00t! $3.14! ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/67 "2016-06-23T20:21:24Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Did you buy e-books? Yes, indeed. In fact, I bought a Kindle in 2012 before a trip to Europe so I would have a compact way to carry reading material. Who knew the battery would only last half as long as the flight. I buy books for the Kindle with some regularity, but I also download a lot of free ones. Wish I had time to read everything I buy (but that’s true of physical books, too). Ah, but reading the OP again, I see it is purchases from 2010-12 that count. So I probably got in at the tail end, if at all… ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/68 "2016-06-23T20:38:44Z")
$21.71 from Barnes and Noble. I’ll take it! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/69 "2016-06-23T22:28:58Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > w00t! $3.14! [Some suggestions on how to spend that!](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=pie+cookbook) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/70 "2016-06-24T03:49:00Z")
126 clams plus change! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/71 "2016-06-24T10:37:17Z")
_grumblegrumble_ I had a Nook back then. Backed the wrong damned horse! ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/72 "2016-06-24T14:22:25Z")
I got an e-mail from Apple yesterday - from them, I got $1.57. I was actually surprised - I bought _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ when I got the original iPad, but that was a while ago. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/73 "2016-06-24T14:23:58Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > _grumblegrumble_ > > I had a Nook back then. Backed the wrong damned horse! BN is giving settlements too. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/74 "2016-06-24T14:25:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > _grumblegrumble_ > > I had a Nook back then. Backed the wrong damned horse! Did you check to see if you got money from Barnes & Noble, as some people in this thread are reporting? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/75 "2016-06-24T16:43:35Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > _grumblegrumble_ > > I had a Nook back then. Backed the wrong damned horse! > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > BN is giving settlements too. Indeed, my wife spent her $40+ B&N settlement credit just as soon as she saw she had it. She was one very happy camper, and is now burning through her new backlog of unread ebooks at a furious rate. ETA: gotta take your hat off to the big marketers in the ebook infrastructure. The same device you use to read the ebook is the one you use to buy them as well as the device you probably first see your settlement credit on. The hardest part of the entire process is probably picking what books you want. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/76 "2016-06-24T19:39:30Z")
$4.71. I bought more than 3 books (the last two Song of Ice and Fire books, several travel books, and a cookbook or two that I can recall for sure. Is it specific to certain publishers? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/77 "2016-06-24T20:10:13Z")
> [@bump](#): > > $4.71. I bought more than 3 books (the last two Song of Ice and Fire books, several travel books, and a cookbook or two that I can recall for sure. Is it specific to certain publishers? See post #58. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/78 "2016-06-24T20:48:11Z")
I got $98, which I used on 2 pairs of shoes and a dress. I’m being rewarded for reading with high heels and a pretty new frock. That’s all kinds of awesome to me. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/79 "2016-06-25T09:22:58Z")
I think that my share of the settlement would have been bigger had I not, early on after getting my first Kindle, decided to purchase the varions Cambridge histories. The Cambridge Medieval History and Cambridge Modern History. For each of those, I got the equivalent of 3000 printed pages, and got educated to boot. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977/80 "2016-06-27T04:22:58Z")
For those of you that got hundreds of dollars in refunds: how many books did you buy during that time frame??? I checked my history - and something like 20 or so from Amazon in the 2010-2012 time frame. Some of them may have been freebies. I bought a lot more from Barnes and Noble but it’s hard to tell how many - most of what shows in my library is because they acquired [ereader.com](http://ereader.com) (where I used to get books for my Palm Pilot). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-credit-from-the-amazon-e-books-settlement/757977.md?page=5)