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Originally Posted by khalleron
Except it's not 'free' - Kindle owners pay a premium for the device, which is not technically different from the Sony - except for the Whispernet.
That's what you buy when you buy a Kindle. That's what Amazon says it's selling when it sells you a Kindle. It's not as though they didn't know how much it costs ahead of time. Or if they didn't (which I *sincerely* doubt), Amazon is certainly big enough to eat the increased costs for their established customers and raise the price for future ones. Cable and phone companies do it all the time.
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I agree with you - you are indeed paying a premium for the Whispernet capability. But from the advertising I've seen for it, it's all about wireless shopping in the Kindle store, and that's not changed. Amazon have never said (to the best of my knowledge - please correct me if I'm wrong!) "you can send your own data to the Kindle free of charge", have they?
Let's get it into perspective - it's not a high charge, is it? Most eBooks are
well under 1MB, and will cost the minimum 15c to transmit. What this effectively amounts to, for the majority of transmitted documents, is simply an increase of the transmission cost from 10c to 15c.