Amazon.com: Customer Questions & Answers
www.amazon.com › ask › questionsJul 6, 2015 · Here is how Amazon pre-orders work. If you pre-order an item Amazon will take every person's order no matter how many of the item that manufacture has. So for example if you preorder an item and the manufacture only has (20) available, amazon will take in 10,000 orders for that item.
Kindle eBook Pre-Order - kdp.amazon.com
kdp.amazon.com › en_US › helpSetting a pre-order allows customers to order your eBook as early as one year before its release date. When you're setting up a new eBook, you can choose to make it available for pre-order and set a date in the future. Though your eBook isn't available for download yet, we'll still publish a detail page for it.