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This is a given. What I meant was an elaboration on why anyone would think that all but a negligible amount of the retailer's take goes into that retailer's profits.
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I note your shift in position. In Post @342 you wrote:
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The complaint is that 30% of every sale (Apple's take) is being called "negligible".
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By post #349 you are writing:
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What I meant was an elaboration on why anyone would think that all but a negligible amount of the retailer's take goes into that retailer's profits.
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As has been pointed out in this thread, Amazon spent a lot of time and money setting up its infrastructure. I would suggest that the costs of maintaining this system when split over the number of books on the system is in fact negligible. And the cost of adding and holding a new book in the system is so close to zero as not to matter. Once you buy your computer and software and set it up, there is no significant extra cost for each file you create. In fact, there is no direct cost at all. If you were to calculate the amount of electricity consumed whilst you created the file, and some amount for the wear and tear on your computer during this time, the "cost" of creating te file would still be negligible. Just what are these non-negligible costs that you say exist in storing an ebook?