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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Those are retailer costs, not publisher costs.
Once the publisher uploads their "master" copy to the retailer they don't incur any further costs whether the ebook sells one copy or a million. Those retailer costs, which are mostly fixed, are precisely why Amazon wants to see ebook sales maximized.