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While it's true that ebooks aren't free (per copy) I'd just like to put it in perspective. I pay 135kr, which is $20.266 dollars per month per vps I store in the cloud. With each vps I get 1 terrabyte of bandwidth every month.
Let's say the average size of an ebook is 2mb, that's being fairly generous. I can send 500,000 ebooks per month on my puny bandwidth alone. That comes to a cost of $0.00004 per book. Note that the cost of power, maintenance and hardware is included in it. Heck, it even includes redundant backup. You can be certain that it's vastly cheaper for amazon since they own their own datacenters and fibre connections, thus there's no middle man that takes its cut as it is for me.
So no, ebooks aren't free, but it'd be intellectually dishonest to count the per-copy fee as anything but irrelevant compared to what pbooks cost per copy. The only real cost of ebooks is the creation of the original formatting, which can be expensive.
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