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Originally Posted by elcreative
Myth time again... one book generated hence no further costs  So where do we get this book from? How about costs of servers (even if leased, it costs), staff to maintain (don't tell me you don't scream if the site you want is down), electricity, costs of doing business (paying card companies who want their cut, proper distribution of royalties, artwork for covers) etc... funnily enough these costs differ very little for paper or ebook AND make up a much larger proportion of the book cost than the no longer needed paper, printing and distribution ever did... Not saying it isn't cheaper but there are plenty of additional costs still included... 
Damn, really must finish reading thread before replying... no matter how irritated... |
Apple will rent me a HD movie for $1.99 which is probably a 6GB download. That's the equivalent incremental IT costs of 6,000 ebook downloads. People tend to over estimate the incremental IT costs for companies like Amazon and Apple that already have the established infrastructure.