Thread: Amazon vs. Hachette Update - It's About Price
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Old 08-02-2014, 11:09 AM   #160
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The mechanisms used to sell an ebook are not free. It's the profit that pays for the server farms, the e-commerce systems, the staff to support them, etc. To imagine that it costs nothing to sell an ebook is erroneous.
Do you have any numbers on how much you are talking there? The servers need to be maintained no matter how full they are. It does not matter if there is one or 10,000 different ebooks on the server. Storage wise you can fit 3 million books at an average of 100MB each on a measly 282 TB. Now please tell me that you actually need a server farm for that? Amazon has to pay a lot more for their server farm just to keep track of the many users each second that shop. You certainly don't believe that each individual customer that buys a ebook warrants a download from the publisher?
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