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Old 09-01-2009, 08:04 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by mjmcleod View Post
And the customer will probably be paying for the wireless service. That can be had fairly cheaply in areas covered by Optus, otherwise companies like Exetel (who bill per kB at $15 per GB) wouldn't be making money, but that's a limited chunk of the country and it's still not the sort of flat-rate deal Amazon has in the US.
If all the "deal" covers, though, is delivery of books (as will be the case with the Sony "Daily Edition", for example), there's no reason that couldn't work. The typical eBook is about 300kb; if the operator charged Sony (or whoever) $15/GB, that's less than half a cent to send the book - that's really not a terribly high overhead for the bookstore to "eat". And I'm sure that in reality they'd be able to get much cheaper rates than are charged to consumers.
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