Thread: US vs Australian Kindle ebook pricing discrepancies
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Old 10-07-2011, 05:17 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
That surcharge only applies in countries where Amazon DOESN'T have a deal with the local telecoms operator, and it is indeed a charge for 3G delivery of the book - but "potential" rather than "actual" delivery.

That's really the only way to do it. Imagine if you had a WiFi Kindle and you bought 100 books with it. Then, a couple of years later, you bought a 3G Kindle and downloaded your 100 books over 3G. Would you be happy for Amazon to send you a bill for $200 at that point?

Up-front payment for the "right" to download via 3G is the only practical way to manage something like that.
I think it is making increasingly less sense as less and less of Amazon's sales take place to their 3G devices. They are now making more non-3G than 3G devices, their tablet won't have 3G, and their sales through iOS/Android apps don't involve any 3G charge.
Why should all of their customers have to pay a charge that might affect less than half of them?
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