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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's never been any more expensive to get a book delivered via Whispernet in your own country.<snip>
However, for people outside the US, the books themselves are about $2 more expensive than they are in the US. Although Amazon don't explicitly call it such, it is a wireless delivery charge, but it applies whether or not you actually get the book delivered wirelessly.
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Well, that's your view.
For the rest of us with an account not tagged "USofA" we pay abt $2 Amazon/AT&T tax on EVERY purchase.
Plus we are denied pictures in ALL publications for which we pay MORE for such as New York Times or Economist, paid the same for the Kindle 2 but aren't even allowed to buy the Kindle DX, paid way more for "shipping", are not allowed to buy ANY alternative cases/skins/accessories, pay $2 for every "free" title for US customers, and have NO OPTION to avoid the wireless tax if we accept "Kindle PC" delivery. Dan Brown's latest Vatican mystery schlock is $2 more in Canada thanks literally to the NO OPTION wireless delivery.
OK, I get it: AT&T's contract extorts $2 from all non-US customers with wireless delivery. But, hey! Wireless is fine: but why can't I pay the same as the US customer and take "free" delivery to my Kindle PC account? And just a sec: if I cut AT&T wireless delivery out altogether, can't you lower the price ANOTHER $2 if I pick it up myself? So Dan Brown ought to be not $11.99 in Canada or $9.99 in the US but maybe $7.99 for all of us not bothering with A&T at all?