Amazon Hobbles Features For International Kindle

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 22, 2009 @06:01AM 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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After all... by rinoid · 2009-10-22 06:28 · Score: 5, Funny

Amazon did have to lay the cable across the oceans to deliver said books. You gotta pony up!
Re:Another troll summary? by yamfry · 2009-10-22 06:29 · Score: 5, Funny

There may be a significant cost in converting from Letter size to A4.