Amazon: International Kindle owners won't have to pay roaming charges

No $1.99 download fee per book for UK

Amazon: International Kindle owners won't have to pay roaming charges
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7 October 2009 19:59 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Amazon has confirmed to Pocket-lint that International customers won't have to pay for roaming charges on the new Kindle International edition.

"No they won’t", a spokesman for the company from the UK office told Pocket-lint after we asked if the company could confirm whether or not UK customers will have to pay the $1.99 download charge, before adding "Wireless delivery is included in the price of the book for international customers so there are no additional charges".

The confusion has arisen over how UK customers and those in other countries will be able to access books over the 3G connection Amazon is promising, as Amazon has confirmed that the Kindle will be roaming on the AT&T Global network.

However, UK users will still only be able to order the new Kindle via the US Amazon site and pay customs tax on the purchase.

At the moment the Kindle will be sold on an import basis to customers in the UK from Amazon.com. The price for the device is $279, and when import fees and shipping is added the total comes to $344.98, which works out at £216.85 at today's rates.
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  • Amazon.com will only sell the cheap crappy worthless model to the UK which has no native PDF support. So to me completely useless. Posted by Luke, United Kingdom
  • Well this is just a big pile of marketing chuff. The price of UK content is uplifted to cover VAT, download and then some. $9.99 books become $13.79 - you do the math.

    I'm astonished at the $1.99 charge in any case. My last book was 1.5MB, Amazon already cover a wireless charge in the fee structure so that $1.99 is an uplift. Someone somewhere is minting it!

    @Luke. Pays you money, takes your choice. I find the free e-mail conversion service workable. Mind you, most people by the Kindle to read books and periodicals not PDFs. So Amazon don't sell the DX here, that's their choice. It doesn't make the normal device cheap or worthless; unlike your comment.     Posted by Andrew, UK

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