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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
It costs almost nothing for the server electricity. But I think it costs a lot, relative to tiny sales, to figure out who would get hundreds of thousands of tiny royalty payments for books published many decades ago.
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Oooh. Good point. Granted, it should be entirely possible to automate or simplify something like that, but who knows if publishers would be willing to do so. One example could be to have a look at the music industry and how royalty payments are done with songs played on the radio. But yeah, that seems like a bit of an undertaking publishers may not be willing to engage in.
Then again, I don't know much about how that works currently, maybe publishers already have an effective, streamlined system for that.