The Amazon Kindle Basic Web Wireless Service: Why It Is a Revolutionary Feature, and Why Amazon Should Keep It Free or Cheap (The Amazing Amazon Kindle, 1)

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This article is excerpted by Stephen Windwalker's book, The Amazing Amazon Kindle (Harvard Perspectives Press, January 2008). Windwalker is author of Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites and creator of the indieKindle website and the Big Man Getting Smaller blog. Approximately 1700 words.

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A great insight into the marketing value of the Amazon Kindle's Basic Web browser and 3G service:

Every Kindle owner should read this article and join us in calling on Amazon to keep the basic web browser and the remarkable wireless broadband service that supports, and to keep it free or cheap. There has been plenty of buzz (as well as a few troublesome lines in the terms and conditions) suggesting that these features won't be free forever. Windwalker makes a well-reasoned case that it should suit Amazon's business model and customer-experience goals to maintain the service at no more than a nominal... more info