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Old 11-14-2009, 08:08 AM   #191
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
So, you buy that book now and next week you buy the Kindle. And download the book by wireless. And you haven't paid the "wireless" fee.

It would require of Amazon to implement a way to differentiate between books that can only be downloaded via your internet connection and books that can also be downloaded by way of the Kindle/iphone/itouch wireless.
Yep. They track a lot of things, this is something else they could do very easily. Charging contingency fees for something you cannot use is a typical and common online scam, as I said. This is in no way "insane", it's my typically pragmatic-above-all view of looking at offerings.

I'm sad but not surprised to see that some people refuse to condem Amazon for this, and it never seems to make the articles - it's a big deal, especially when it ties you into a closed and propriatory ecosystem.
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