[Because facebook has very unfairly blocked my blog, Punya Reviews..., from being promoted on their platform, I'm using booklikes as a "gateway" of sorts so I have a link to promote. It's been over a year but I tried for the first 4 months to reach them through any means I could find but without any luck whatsoever. Doesn't look like I'll get the block removed anytime soon, if ever. More on what happened can be found here.]

LINK to my book blast post for I Dream of Demigods on Punya Reviews...:

https://punyareviews.blogspot.com/2023/03/book-blast-and-giveaway-i-dream-of.html

[Because facebook has very unfairly blocked my blog, Punya Reviews..., from being promoted on their platform, I'm using booklikes as a "gateway" of sorts so I have a link to promote. It's been over a year but I tried for the first 4 months to reach them through any means I could find but without any luck whatsoever. Doesn't look like I'll get the block removed anytime soon, if ever. More on what happened can be found here.]

LINK to my release blitz post for Cyber on Punya Reviews...:

https://punyareviews.blogspot.com/2023/03/release-blitz-and-giveaway-cyber-by-cm.html

As one of the participants/correspondents in the below conversation, I do give my permission to post the following screenshots.  

Final answer Amazon live chat gave = "no" Amazon isn't giving authors your contact info: 

Why I asked?  An author claiming otherwise over on goodreads here. (I know, consider the source...)

I'm addressed during the chat as if my husband "Charles" because I chatted from our shared household kindle account. By" host" the chat is referring to authors or others who are hosting/doing an Amazon giveaway.

I suspect the very polite CSR was seeing some FAQ type of information popup in response to keywords/phrases in my questions, hence my being asked if I was an author trying to do a giveaway or claim my author profile.  A sneaky strange little part of my brain is paranoid enough to wonder if authors got different answers than customers -- but, even I don't seriously believe Amazon would give out customer details to anyone hosting a giveaway.  Or that the blogosphere wouldn't be full of screaming winners if that had happened.  I would more reasonably suspect that maybe a list of Twitter handles who entered/won or something not connected to Amazon's customer details might, though. 

Read for yourself -- the chat in full (boy could I have clipped a few bits and made it sound completely differently or ended without getting additional clarification ... but I did just want the question answered) :

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When authors do giveaways via the Amazon giveaway, just what information on the winners do they see? This discussion has me asking:

I understand on goodreads, booklikes and other giveaways why authors would need physical or digital delivery info; but, Amazon ships all the giveaway wins directly to their customers.  

4 Star review:
It was nice to see a book about vampires written so well.The last good series was the Sooki Stackhouse series.http://t.co/Ymkt0FrQo6