Per Amazon and posted on their site here, as of Monday, 5/4/2009, there will be a new policy for documents sent wirelessly to your Kindle. They are charging $ .15 per MB (rounded up). I never heard of anyone who got charged on the previous fee structure, but am pretty confident that they used the past few months to test and came up with the new policy. I find this interesting as I had in the past sent a couple of documents that I was told were too large. I’ll have to go thru my past uploads to calculate, so I’m not sure just yet how this will affect me. Unfortunately, many non-technical users will have no idea how to calculate this.
Also for those of you using Microsoft Word 2007, note that you may want to save as a .DOC, since it’s now noted that the new Word format (.DOCX) may not format correctly
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 supported file types (DOC, HTML, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TXT, AZW, MOBI, PRC), you can send RTF files to your Kindle email address for convenient wireless delivery. In addition to the existing experimental support of PDF, you can also send DOCX files for conversion. Some complex PDF and DOCX files might not format correctly on your Kindle.We have also modified the fee associated with sending personal documents wirelessly to your Kindle. This fee is now based on the size of your file. The fee for Personal Document Service (via Whispernet) is 0.15 per megabyte rounded up to the next whole megabyte.If you would like to download your personal documents for free, or if you are not in a wireless area, you can continue to send attachments to ”name”@free.kindle.com to be converted. These documents will be e-mailed to your computer at the e-mail address associated with your Amazon.com account login.
As always, you can also use our free document conversion service for any document you want to transfer over USB, and you will not be charged.
