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Originally Posted by Slite
Wait a minute here. Amazon charges $2 in "whispernet fee" for downloading a "free" book to your PC using a "landbased" link?
Did I get that straight?
If so... That just leaves me speechless and flabbergasted and it will surely be a cold day in the place that is usually described as beeing very hot and smelling of sulphur before I use this stupid thing!
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Just to set the record straight, as I understand it, Amazon does *not* charge a Whispernet fee. They charge a *price*. It's true that their justification for charging the price is to cover the cost of Whispernet but if it's a price rather than a Whispernet fee then it makes sense that it's charged whether you use Whispernet or not. (What leaves me flabbergasted is the idea that they'd charge at all for a 'free' book. Even if their expenses in UK are higher than in US, I'd still think they'd rather bear the expenses than suffer the ill will. Obviously they don't think so however.)