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Tiersten · 10-10-2010, 04:53 PM

The country the Kindle is registered in affects whether you have the ability to access sites which aren't the Kindle store and Wikipedia. This also affects whether you get the $2 surcharge for delivery which Bikeridr mentioned above.

Assuming you don't have the surcharge, Amazon factors in the price of delivery into the purchase price of the book. If it is a free book or if you're redownloading something you've previously purchased then Amazon will eat the cost of delivery and not charge you.

The Kindle browsers all go through Amazon proxy servers when they're connected via 3G. Everything else is blocked. You can't stream video/audio currently and I'd be surprised if anybody really heavily uses the Kindle browser. The amount of data being transferred because of the free experimental browser isn't going to be huge. If you start really hammering it and going crazy with it then Amazon may notice and tell you to stop but you'd really have to overuse it for that to even possibly happen.

The Kindle terms & conditions do state that Amazon can withdraw the free 3G service in the future but thats more of a standard clause since they for example don't want to have to fund a 3G service just for Kindles for somebody who still has a working Kindle 3 50 years from now etc...

10-10-2010, 04:53 PM	#11
Tiersten Guru Posts: 987 Karma: 8641 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle 3G+WiFi	The country the Kindle is registered in affects whether you have the ability to access sites which aren't the Kindle store and Wikipedia. This also affects whether you get the $2 surcharge for delivery which Bikeridr mentioned above. Assuming you don't have the surcharge, Amazon factors in the price of delivery into the purchase price of the book. If it is a free book or if you're redownloading something you've previously purchased then Amazon will eat the cost of delivery and not charge you. The Kindle browsers all go through Amazon proxy servers when they're connected via 3G. Everything else is blocked. You can't stream video/audio currently and I'd be surprised if anybody really heavily uses the Kindle browser. The amount of data being transferred because of the free experimental browser isn't going to be huge. If you start really hammering it and going crazy with it then Amazon may notice and tell you to stop but you'd really have to overuse it for that to even possibly happen. The Kindle terms & conditions do state that Amazon can withdraw the free 3G service in the future but thats more of a standard clause since they for example don't want to have to fund a 3G service just for Kindles for somebody who still has a working Kindle 3 50 years from now etc... Last edited by Tiersten; 10-10-2010 at 04:55 PM.