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Originally Posted by eBookNewbie123
This why I am saying sell it through Amazon. They already have everything in place. The datacenter, IT Staff the whole lot. Their datacenter was underused to the point they created Amazon Could Computing. Selling it through Amazon will cost them much less than printing, binding etc.
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Was it on here that I read someone talking about Amazon being a cloud computing company, the book store is 'just' a reference / proof of concept implementation. (That's obviously not currently true, but it actually may be at some point).
Anyway - just because Amazon have those things, doesn't mean it doesn't cost anything. If ebooks start to sell for $2, then pbook sales go down, then Amazon's costs need to come completely out of ebooks, and the price rockets.
Personally I understand that a books cost is not just the unit cost, and that that is a potential small part of cost. However, surely the balance is sell 10 copies @ £20 or 1000 @ £1. The latter is obviously the better value proposition for ebooks, but likely not for pbooks. Then again someone was quoted recently pointing out that most readers have a shortage of time over money. If the price of books were 1/10 what they are now, I wouldn't suddenly read 10 as many books. I suspect a lot of people here are also in that position, we are by our nature voracious readers. However if the average person only reads a few books a year (just the years best sellers), then they are unlikely to read more without some prompting, and they seem extremely unlikely to buy an ereader given that value proposition.
I'd guess the push for news papers and magazines on devices is one way of prompting people to buy more books. Get people to read their paper on an ereader, and suddenly they could also use the same device for books...
(I go off topic so often, I don't even remember what the original discussion was about.)