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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's pretty obvious that most of you guys aren't in IT. Servers and data centers cost money. Lots of money.
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I do work in IT, and also in distribution.
Physically moving things around the country (world) costs money, lots of money.
And the costs scale with the number of items sold.
Once Amazon have the infrastructure in place to sell books, the additional unit cost of selling another one is tiny.
Each extra pBook sold is another one printed, shipped to a distributor, warehoused, shipped to a retail outlet, stocked, and possibly ultimately destroyed if it doesn't sell quickly enough.
Digital scales much better than physical does.