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how fast has it to be? A book would be like 1 mb perhaps 2 or 3 for a big one.
The complete Lord of the rings is around 5 mb in pdf, 3 in txt and 1.5 in LIT. And that is after all 3 books. I wouldn't like to wait for more than 10 minutes for a book, that would be 5 mb /10 minutes = 8 kbyte/s = 67 kbit/s. That is not very much EDGE got a speed on over 200 kbit/s so it would work very well. Then we got 3G, if Amazon really want to have a internet connection everywhere they would prob go over to 3G some time in the EU.
regarding the pricing, it could just be a datarate or time cost, no fee for having the contract. And if you only could access the amazon store it could be in the price of the books allready. (the phone company would get thier money form amazon)
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