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Muncher of ebooks
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Boy, it does look ever worse for the kindle...
from gizmodo.com ( http://gizmodo.com/5233959/kindles-w...y-the-megabyte) "The way things used to work, a single dime would grant you a Whispernet delivery of anything from a simple JPEG photo to a 120-page manuscript of your Xena: Warrior Princess fanfic novella. Now, Amazon has introduced a progressive payment scale, based on the size of the converted document. It's pretty simple: $0.15 for every megabyte transferred over Whispernet, rounded to the next whole megabyte. In effect, this means that the minimum transfer charge is $0.152 Well I guess it was to be expected... Cheers, kaas |
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It certainly looks like Amazon are entering the "screw your customers for as much as we can get before they go elsewhere" phase
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Well, maybe they had to learn first that such services can grow to a major expense factor.
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eBook Enthusiast
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Please continue the discussion here:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45815 There's already a lengthy thread on this topic. Thanks! Thread closed.
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