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Amazon changes fee structure for sending documents to your Kindle or Kindle 2
obsessable.com - 4/30/2009
Amazon changes fee structure for sending documents to your Kindle or Kindle 2
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The $0.10 per conversion rate for sending documents to the Kindle has just been increased to $0.15 per megabyte. Does this increase lessen the value of the Kindle? In a move that is sure to anger quite a few of their customers,  Amazon announced on its blog today that beginning May 4th, ...
mediamemo.allthingsd.com - 5/4/2009
New Amazon Device Debuts Wednesday
— mediamemo.allthingsd.com — The last time Amazon held a press conference in New York City was in February, when it... introduced the Kindle 2.0. Now the company has scheduled another one for Wednesday morning at Pace University in lower Manhattan. Expect a new large-format device ... (more) New Amazon Device Debuts Wednesday

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amazon.com - 4/30/2009
Kindle Personal Documents
— amazon.com — For anyone who has recently sent personal documents to your Kindle, we'd like to let you know about some updates to... our Personal Document Service (via Whispernet).   Starting May 4, in addition to the existing list of ... (more) Kindle Personal Documents

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online.wsj.com - 5/4/2009
Publishers Nurture Rivals to Kindle
— online.wsj.com — Some newspaper and magazine companies, feeling let down by the Kindle electronic reader from Amazon.com Inc., are... pushing for alternatives. A few publishers are forging alliances with consumer-electronics firms to support e-readers that meet their ... (more) Publishers Nurture Rivals to Kindle

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Amazon to charge per megabyte to send personal documents OTA to your Kindle
engadget.com 4/30/2009 — So far, sending files to your Kindle cost a flat fee -- one dime per document for conversion and download over Whispernet. Looks like that honeymoon is over, as Amazon's announced that as of May 4th, the Personal Document Service will be a ...
Amazon Kindle DX to feature 9.7-inch display?
engadget.com 5/5/2009 — It's still an elusive target for our old friend Mr. Blurrycam, but we just got some basic specs on the new, decidedly more newspaper- and college textbook-friendly Amazon Kindle DX . Here's what we know: it's got a 9.7-inch display (as opposed to ...
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Amazon on Wednesday announced its Personal Document Service for the Kindle e-book reader has been updated and, starting May 4th, will support RTF text files in addition to DOC, HTML, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TXT, AZW, MOBI, and PRC. At the same time, Ama...
Amazon to Introduce By-the-Megabyte Fee for Kindle Uploads — Maximum PC all RSS Feed
Amazon this week announced some changes to its Personal Document Service, with the biggest one coming to its fee structure. Starting May 4th, no longer will it cost a dime for every document Kindle owners send to their eBook reader (via Whispernet, the Sprint-based EV-DO network that delivers ...
Amazon to charge 50% more for OTA Kindle document transfers — CrunchGear
Amazon’s Personal Document Service has mainatined a $.10 fee for every document transfered via Whispernet since the device was launched, but the service will now cost at least 50% more. Starting May 4th, Amazon will charge $.15 per megebyte rounded up to the nearest whole megabyte for ...