Amazon changes fee structure for Kindle wireless document conversion
By Paul Biba
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 15 cents per megabyte rounded up to the next whole megabyte [as opposed to a flat 10 cents].
So says Amazon on their Kindle blog. Not a big deal, really, and if you want to email them the document and get it emailed back, and then install it via USB, then the conversion is still free. I would have liked it if they had sent me an email about this, however, instead of having to read it in Gizmodo. By the way, I have found that the conversion service works very well with PDFs. While the conversion is not perfect it is good enough that this has become my preferred PDF conversion method. It has never failed, as opposed to Calibre which fails me quite often.
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