Aye, but I was never debating the per-title costs. I have absolutely no idea what those might be so I'd be speaking in utter ignorance if I did. What I responded to was the following statement;
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Originally Posted by taustin
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.
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These days servers (power, maintenance, etc) and bandwidth is next to free. Thus the per-copy cost of an ebook is virtually nil compared to the very real costs of a physical copy (material, printing, shipping, storage, etc).