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Originally Posted by Randeep
DiapDealer:
Just because this has been brought up a few times already I'd like to point out that the intent of this thread is not to argue over how much e-Books should cost.
HellMark:
Kolenka
You two are either being disingenuous, or you have no idea what you are talking about. You're going to try to tell me your bandwidth factors into the cost? I mean a gigabyte of data is only going to cost a server company around 15 cents (and that's generous for a lot of cases). The average eBook is 1-5 megabytes, which means the bandwidth cost is a fraction of a cent. And a small fraction at that.
You're telling me that DRM licensing is a per-book cost. That is something I was not aware of, and you didn't mention how much this would cost, but a lot of publishers use their own proprietary DRM so for them again, it is $0.00 to attach DRM to a book.
BTW: server fees, IT fees and others are costs that Publishers and Distributors of ANY book, electronic and paper, have.
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Yes, but it is still a cost that has to be considered. Not to mention, that bandwidth costs can vary based not just on how much is used but also how much is used at a time. Things are much more expensive if you have a bunch of people using your bandwidth at once, than if you have a few people using a lot of bandwidth steadily, even if the total bandwidth used ends up being the same. eBook retailers are more likely to have many people vying for connections at the same time. Not only do you have to have fat pipes to not have a bottleneck, but you have to have plenty of computing power to handle the connections.
As far as the DRM goes, what publisher uses their own DRM? I know of no publisher with an inhouse DRM. And still, it isn't the publishers themselves that have to deal with the DRM expenses, but rather the retailer, and the only one with their own proprietary DRM is Amazon.
And as far as server costs go, yes all have that, but the costs vary quite a bit depending on what they use it for. If all they do is have a webpage up, they require far less than if they're having to use server side DRM solutions, secure file serving, etc.
Also, my name is Hellmark. No capital "m". Capitalizing the "m" makes it seem as if it should be two words, or implying that my name is Mark (which it is not).