Kindle’s WhisperNet Gets a Conventional Pricing Model

kindle-2Amazon’s Kindle is a popular e-book reader and that popularity is as much due to the wireless WhisperNet service as it is to how good an electronic reader the Kindle is. WhisperNet is the Sprint-based EV-DO network that pushes books and user content to the Kindle, seemingly without cost and without effort to the owner.

Amazon has always allowed Kindle owners to send their own content, such as PDF documents, to their Kindle with a simple mechanism of emailing the content to the device. This has always cost a flat 10 cents per document no matter how big. That has now been changed in favor of a more conventional pricing model that is 15 cents per megabyte for such transfers. Transfer sizes are rounded to the next highest MB in size for billing so all documents now cost at least 15 cents, with the larger documents costing more. It seems that Amazon must be paying a lot to Sprint for these transfers and they now need to make the users pay.

(via Gear Diary)

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