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Originally Posted by calvin-c
What infrastructure are you talking about? The editing, proofreading, advertising, etc? If the book has already been published in pbook, then the incremental cost is, as you state, tiny-but why should you pay just the incremental cost? The real issue is that *all* the infrastructure costs should be spread over *all* the distribution channels that benefit from that infrastructure.
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Do you mean a website like Amazon? Which already has the infrastructure. There datafarm was underused that they came out with the Amazon Cloud Computing. The size of an eBook is no more than 1MB.
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Originally Posted by Dumas
Oh, wait. Didn't the music companies pay fines totalling $143.1 million for price fixing CDs while admitting absolutely no wrong doing? Right.
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This is a worry of mine as well, where the publishers get together and artificially increase the price of eBooks. Please do not say this doesn't happen, as I know for a fact it happens in the USA with text messages. Those texts are piggybacked onto the signal the mobile phone uses to find out the nearest towers.