Thread: How long can Amazon keep up with the free 3G?
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Old 10-10-2010, 03:17 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by thinkpadx View Post
Amazon has been offering the free 3G for quite some time now. Since they seem to be selling a lot of devices I'm wondering how long this can go on.

What's there business strategy when offering free 3G? And for how long can they keep this up. At some point I'm guessing they will retract the offer. What will they provide as a business model in its place, how much will they charge for the 3G?
I don't see why they decide to stop offering it. The typical price for "pay as you go" internet via 3G here in the UK is somewhere around £10 for 1GB of data transfer. The average eBook is about 300kb in size, which means that even if I was personally paying to send the book to the Kindle, it would cost around 0.3p (about half a US cent) to do so. That's an insignificant amount when compared to the price of a book, and I'm sure that Amazon negotiates enormously cheaper data rates than I can get.

I strongly suspect that the overwhelming majority of Kindle 3G owners never use the 3G for anything other than buying books.
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