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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
1. Ebook Stores have a much lower cost to set up and run than a conventional brick and mortar store. I don't know exactly how big the store part of the fictionwise operation is, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to run the entire store from a single computer rack... So figure $200,000 every few years for hardware upgrades and replacement. Most of the rest of the expenses will go towards paying the programmers, system administrators and DBA (maybe just a couple of people multitasking) , and the costs of acquiring the books and paying the publishers for the sales.
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The costs may lower than that, depending upon who you are and what you do. There are a plethora of hosting outfits with racks of servers, who will happily rent you server space in a LAMP environment. You pay them a monthly fee for the servers used and the bandwidth consumed.
Programming, sysadmin, and database admin are on you, as is cost of acquisition of stock, but up front costs of hardware may not be.
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Dennis