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Charbax · 11-22-2007, 08:23 AM

They don't need to add a monthly charge, but they could for example sell Internet access per megabyte, for example $0.10 per megabyte or less, just as that is what they charge per document that is converted and sent to the Kindle email.

So for example you could add something like $5 of bandwidth to your account to access for example 50mb of books from Gutenberg.org, Google Books, from any RSS feed in the RSS aggregator, a smart personalized version of Google News and that per-megabyte charge would probably be the one to use for browsing using the browser when it's not experimental anymore.

Hopefully $5 could give much more than 50mb bandwidth on EVDO, on HSDPA in Europe for example, I would expect 5€ give access to at least 1GB of bandwidth. Just as Amazon is used to charge for bandwidth on their Amazon S3 service, this is the same deal here. Downloading a book conveniently from Gutenberg.org in a nice optimized interface, if the book is for example 200KB would thus cost $0.02 if the price per MB is for example $0.10.

11-22-2007, 08:23 AM	#4
Charbax Addict Posts: 203 Karma: 550683 Join Date: Mar 2007	They don't need to add a monthly charge, but they could for example sell Internet access per megabyte, for example $0.10 per megabyte or less, just as that is what they charge per document that is converted and sent to the Kindle email. So for example you could add something like $5 of bandwidth to your account to access for example 50mb of books from Gutenberg.org, Google Books, from any RSS feed in the RSS aggregator, a smart personalized version of Google News and that per-megabyte charge would probably be the one to use for browsing using the browser when it's not experimental anymore. Hopefully $5 could give much more than 50mb bandwidth on EVDO, on HSDPA in Europe for example, I would expect 5€ give access to at least 1GB of bandwidth. Just as Amazon is used to charge for bandwidth on their Amazon S3 service, this is the same deal here. Downloading a book conveniently from Gutenberg.org in a nice optimized interface, if the book is for example 200KB would thus cost $0.02 if the price per MB is for example $0.10. Last edited by Charbax; 11-22-2007 at 08:29 AM.