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Amazon Hobbles Features For International Kindle

Posted by timothy on from the someone-call-me-when-the-sinister-starts dept.

Barence writes "Amazon has stripped several key features out of the international edition of the Kindle, PC Pro has discovered. Newspapers and magazines are delivered without any photos, and the web browser has been disabled, presumably because Amazon doesn't want to foot the data bill. There's also a 40% premium on books bought via the Amazon store. 'International customers do pay a higher price for their books than US customers due to higher operating costs outside of the US,' an Amazon spokesperson confessed."

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  1. Re:Higher Costs outside the USA? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Repeat these two sentences until you can draw a conclusion from them:

    'International customers do pay a higher price for their books than US customers due to higher operating costs outside of the US'
    I fail to understand the reasoning for this in places where Amazon already has a huge operation (eg UK)

    Hint: huge operation = higher operating costs. There's a FAIL here all right...oh wait, I see you even say "I fail" too! Well OK then.

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