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I link to Bandwidth Alliance to emphasize that there is a way to lower a CDN bill. On my previous job we served video via AWS CloudFront and even negotiated a s

I link to Bandwidth Alliance to emphasize that there is a way to lower a CDN bill. On my previous job we served video via AWS CloudFront and even negotiated a special price for that and S3. Any CDN with their own object storage will hanlde heavy lifting of audio, it is not a big deal and not that expensive to the point of making a garden variety CDN on Digital Ocean or other cloud provider nonsensical. I have to research about DRM, but isn't it goes out of the box on Android and iOS?

quesera 4y ago
I would assert that network transfer costs for audiobook sales are a vanishingly insignificant part of the total cost of running an audiobook publishing business. Rounds to zero, I suspect. This is based on a good knowledge of the size of audiobooks, good knowledge of the price of network transfer, and a reasonable guess on the number of books sold.
- SergeAx 4y ago
  What is a major cost then, in your opinion?
  - quesera 4y ago
    I'm guessing, but: Marketing, payroll, royalties, and operations. In that order. Network transfer fees would come out of operations, and are probably less than 10% of same.