View Single Post
Old 10-17-2011, 03:26 PM   #94
murraypaul
Interested Bystander
murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.murraypaul ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 3,726
Karma: 19728152
Join Date: Jun 2008
Device: Note 4, Kobo One
Quote:
Originally Posted by taustin View Post
That simply isn't true. Servers aren't free, and neither are high speed pipes to the internet. And both require people and electricity (I'll bet Amazon spends more on electricity every day than you or I will in an entire lifetime to keep them working properly.

Per copy, ebooks are cheaper than paper books, but they are not free.
I doubt that the electricity and bandwidth costs of delivering a couple of hundred KB of ebook are even measurable. There is a definite back-end cost of actually processing the payment, that is a real per-copy cost.
murraypaul is offline   Reply With Quote