Kindle, We Have a Problem: Amazon's Pricing Policies Affect Publishers

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by mr ploppy

Then presumably you could have DRM with a CBR?

Oh, absolutely.

[rogue_librarian]

I am not aware of any viewers that support it. Technically, I suppose you could.

[murraypaul]

Originally Posted by HarryT

To all purchases. Essentially it's the cost OF delivering it over 3G regardless of whether it actually IS delivered over 3G. The only alternative would be to have a "surcharge" at the time that it was delivered. Imagine the case where a Kindle owner initially bought a WiFi Kindle, bought a load of books, and then a couple of years later, bought a 3G Kindle and re-downloaded all their books. Applying the charge at that point would really be unworkable - it has to be done at the time of purchase.

But how is that different from someone with a 3G Kindle who downloads the book a dozen times? In each case a fixed fee for the book doesn't really make sense for a variable cost of multiple deliveries.
And as the proportion of books being sold to non-Kindle-3G devices increases (whether they are Wifi Kindles, iThings or whatever), it seems to make less and less sense to apply a flat charge to all users.