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Originally Posted by eBookNewbie123
They can serve 5000 eBooks to 400,000 people max per month at a cost of $50 a month. If they decided to sell each eBook at a price of $1 they still make $399,950 profit. This all becomes redundant for websites like Amazon, who can already do all of this on top of what they do. I do not know about marketing and advertising just about computing.
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You are absolutely right that the cost of electronically distributing a book is substantially less than the physical distribution, but the point is that there is a sizable amount of time, effort, and money that goes into books well before they get published in any format. And that has to added into the cost of the book regardless if the method of distribution. You also did not include the actual infrastructure (website, ecommerce account, database managment, etc.) to sell and distribute the eBooks, not a huge cost but still a cost.
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Originally Posted by eBookNewbie123
The best example is iTunes which charge like $1 per song when each is 3Meg roughly.
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That's not really a good example at all, selling a single song from an album would be like selling a single chapter of a book. If you wanted to by an entire album's worth of songs it would cost pretty close to what purchasing the CD would cost, more in some cases. You can buy and enjoy a single song, if the same method was applied to books all you'd do is tease yourself with individual chapters
