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Originally Posted by DNSB
Perhaps Amazon prefers to send millions of books that are 500K rather than millions of books that are 22MB? And you might want to remember that the authors pay $0.15 (US & Canada, other countries can get even more expensive) per megabyte which comes out of their share of the book price. So that 22MB book would cost the author $3.30 compared to $0.075 for the 500K ebook. Of course, if you go for the 35% royalty, Amazon will not charge the delivery charges but then they are getting an additional 35% of the price. See Digital Book Pricing Page for more information.
When you look at AWS, Amazon's bandwidth charges are painful. One main reason that my employers dropped AWS and went with other providers. |
There's no reason to charge for bandwidth. There's no reason to reduce image size/quality. There's no reason to cheat customers into not getting an eBook with the correct images. Amazon is doing this because nobody is challenging them and they make more money by scamming authors and customers.