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Originally Posted by theducks
It costs more to store the book. (It might be a fraction of a cent, but it is MORE)
Does it costs more to apply DRM? (byte count charge)
It uses more bandwidth to transmit (those buckets of bytes, still cost and slow other tasks)
So far, these all affect the supplier.
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I'm not so sure that's true. Increasing the size of all your ebooks only costs you extra if it pushes over the edge of your current storage. You can store half a million books on a 1Tb drive. So it's the 500,001st ebook that forces you to buy a new drive and costs you money.
But these numbers are so large that you'll be replacing the drives due to age long before you actually fill them due to your ebook catalog.
But let's say it is a real cost. It still has to be more than the cost of doing the job to slim down those ebooks.
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there are expenses that the Reseller and Customer incur from needless bloat
Just because the workman can't be bothered to clean up after the project.
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I don't believe it's "just because the workman" anything. I believe it's because the person paying the workman doesn't care enough to get them to do it. And they don't care because people don't buy ebooks based on how little unnecessary CSS they contain.
It's really not about some individual slovenly person who's deciding they don't want to do a good job. Even if that were true, the reason that person isn't fired and replaced with someone better is that there isn't enough incentive. The cost isn't significant enough to try to cut it, the enhanced product won't command a higher price. Why should they care?