OMG, you're right! How did I miss that before?? I compared price of books on Sony vs Amazon, but I must not have been signed on to Amazon at the time. I think I read about the additional $1.99 fee when it first became available here, but then they dropped the fee. They must have just bundled that fee into the price of the books.
I read somewhere that Amazon was having troubles working out a deal with the local cell phone providers/networks. I guess in order to keep the "free" whispernet, they have to recoup their costs somehow.
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