Introduction
Book rental is a cheap way to enable people who are not able to afford to buy a book or for a person who wants a particular part of the book to benefit from reading it. For people to embrace renting the book, the process of renting, paying, and returning has to be seamless, easy, and rental fee to be affordable. Let’s know about Amazon Book Rental.
Amazon provides its customers an opportunity to rent books from Amazon Rentals. The customer must have an account with Amazon to rent a book, and the book will be shipped to them once the payment has been confirmed. The customer is to return the book within the stipulated rental period after which a penalty fee is charged or a customer can extend their period and pay if it has expired and they still want the book.
Book rental period
- Amazon Rentals extends a semester-long, 30-days, 60-days, or 90-days rental period for books to the customers after which a customer is required to return the book rented.
- A customer can apply for a rental period extension depending on the type of rental as follows.
- Semester-long rentals are extended for 15-days for non-postmarked books on or before the due date
- 30-days, 60-days, or 90-days rentals are extended for 30-days
Process of renting a book at Amazon
Below is the process that a customer has to use to rent a book from Amazon Rentals store.
- Visit Amazon Rental store https://www.amazon.com/rentals/b?ie=UTF8&node=17853655011 and log in to your Amazon account
- Use the search function and enter the book ISBN, the title of the book, or the author.
- From the list of books displayed depending on the customer search, the customer selects the book they are interested in
- Then select the rent button that appears on the product detail page if it is available as some of the books are not available for rent.
- The customer then adds the book to the cart
- Then selects the Proceed to Checkout button which leads the customer to the next steps
- The customer confirms the shipping address or Amazon pick-up location if they already had indicted one and maintains it or changes it.
If the address was not there, the customer inputs the address and saves it.
- Then confirms the payment method to use, maintain it or change it to a preferred one.
- Then place the rental order.
- After placing the order, Amazon confirms the payment has been received and processes the order for shipment to the stated location
- Customers renting the book pay for the rental fee if their order is not over $35 while orders over $35 are shipped for free.
Amazon book rental conditions
The books rented at Amazon are either new or used. The following are some of the conditions of books that are rented by Amazon and the customer is expected to return them in the condition they received otherwise they will be charged a fee.
- Not torn
- No loose pages
- No smoke damage
- No stains or water damaged
- All books have covers in good condition
- Binding intact
Amazon Rentals method of payment
Customer renting books in Amazon can pay for the rentals using the following methods
- Credit or debit cards
- Cash
- Gift cards
- Vouchers
- Amazon.com store card
- Personal checking accounts
Process of returning a rental book to Amazon
The following is the process that customers use to return a book they have rented from Amazon Rentals when the rental period has lapsed or are done with the book before the period lapses.
- Visit Amazon rental store using https://www.amazon.com/rentals/b?ie=UTF8&node=17853655011 and log in to your Amazon account.
- Select Manage Your Rentals
- Then choose the book you want to return, then Return rental to get the return shipping label
- Print the return shipping label and packaging slip, pack the book with the packaging slip.
- Label the package and attach the return shipping label
- Take the package to the carrier indicated for shipment to Amazon
Frequently Asked Questions
- How much will I pay to return my rental order?
Amazon offers customers free return shipping of their orders to Amazon.
- What are the shipping locations for rental orders covered by Amazon?
Amazon only ships to the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii.
- What happens if the return period expires and I have not returned the book?
Amazon will automatically extend the rental period depending on the type of rental and charge the customer.
- How long after renting can I purchase the book?
Amazon allows book purchase after 30 days for semester-long and 15 days for 30-days, 60-days, or 90-days rentals.
- Can I track my rental?
Yes. A customer can track their rental by logging into their Amazon account and clicking on the Manage Your Rental, then selecting Track Package on the rented book.
