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Originally Posted by koland
I also expect they'll start charging for documents sent via direct web links and links inside kindle books. Since both are gaping wide holes in the fees they claim they'll charge and are an avenue for people to keep getting those several MB/day news feeds for free. Technically both of these types of downloads are even against the user's agreement, but are obviously (or were) condoned by Amazon or they would not work (which is what happens if you try to download music this way).
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They'd have to charge for all web traffic if they start doing that, since you can't really tell an ebook from any other data stream reliably. And Amazon *does* reserve the right to do that in the future, but they aren't yet even via this latest announcement.