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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That is irrelevant. eBooks go on a server. That's the cost. pBooks go in a warehouse or a physical store.
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that can be very small server: just one 4k movie needs as much server space as about 4k e-books and much more bandwidth to deliver.
and while streaming a movie a day would not be uncommon, the average download rate for books is probably 1 per week, or longer
pbooks have shipping and packaging costs as well as warehouse
the cost per book of running a well designed online library ( excluding royalties ) should be only a few cents per loan. I estimate that I use more bandwidth
per month within my netflix subscription than I would use if I borrowed 10 books a day for the rest of my life