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Originally Posted by kennyc
So you say. I say there are significant human maintenance costs associated with providing books to the public to purchase. Amazon's cost of doing business - above and beyond the intitial production, editing, etc. of the book itself. There are on-going management and maintenance costs. It is not free.
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But I've never said it was free, I was specifically talking about per-copy costs. Believe I used the term no less than three times in my post. I'm explicitly agreeing that there are substantial costs to bringing an ebook to the public, even used the term "expensive". It's just really dishonest for anyone to say that the cost per copy is anywhere near comparable.
And I didn't say it, amazon did. You're welcome to check their developer pages for detailed information on how e2c and s3 works. Very little, except their proprietary backend, is kept secret.