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Old 05-21-2009, 06:46 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by sirbruce View Post
If you were charged $0.30, then I suspect it was over 1 MB in size.
Yes, it was 1.23 megs. But that's not the point; they increased the fees and what was $0.10 when I bought the K2 just a few months ago is now 300% more expensive, and then they double charged me.

Is $0.60 or even $0.30 going to break me? Certainly not. And I would probably only do it twice a month, so even over the course of a year it's still going to be less than $10. It is going to make me use the Whispernet less though, and that's going to make the reason for having a Kindle in the first place a lot less appealing, and that's going to mean that I recommend other ebook readers to my friends if they're not going to be getting a subscription to a newspaper.

I suspect that one reason for this increased charge is Calibre. That program is an incredibly useful one for delivering periodical content to the Kindle - so much so that Kovid probably broke Amazon's business model. I'm not blaming Kovid - his work is fantastic. But I'm sure the folks at Amazon don't appreciate it as much as I do.
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