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If I were to buy the author's book and download it to my non-3G Kindle over my own wi-fi connection, the author would still be charged $2.85 for it. Surely the
by teamonkey 14y ago
If I were to buy the author's book and download it to my non-3G Kindle over my own wi-fi connection, the author would still be charged $2.85 for it.
Surely the 3G Kindle owners should be paying for it - and only then if they use whispernet. Or rather, I always thought they were because the 3G Kindle touch is $50 more expensive. A cellular radio only costs a dollar or two, I always figured that most of the $50 price difference represented average download costs over the expected lifetime.
- mdiep 14y agoThe article does not say that downloading it over your wi-fi connection will result in $2.58 in delivery fees. It says that the average delivery fee for the book was $2.58.
- teamonkey 14y agoAmazon apply the fee regardless of delivery method. Check out the link posted by kennethcwilbur elsewhere in this thread. https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A29FL26OKE7R7B https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A29FL26O... Amazon charge $0.15/MB and the book was approximately 18MB in size.
- frozenflame 14y agoI don't particularly approve of their pricing, but to be fair the book could be downloaded many times over 3G in the future included in that initial delivery cost.
- sjwright 14y agoAnd that fee would be more reasonable if Amazon allowed authors to provide optimised versions of their book suitable for e-readers that don't have high resolution colour screens.
- brazzy 14y ago> Surely the 3G Kindle owners should be paying for it - and only then if they use whispernet. IMO a fair alternative would be an option for the author to disable Whispernet delivery in exchange for a much lower delivery fee. The system is already set up to do that for audio books.