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> The idea that Amazon is still charging a "delivery cost" for data as if it's a 2007-era Kindle running on a built in 3G connection is ludicrous. Almost all Ki
by iLoveOncall 4y ago
> The idea that Amazon is still charging a "delivery cost" for data as if it's a 2007-era Kindle running on a built in 3G connection is ludicrous. Almost all Kindles use Wi-Fi now. There is no real cost to delivering the ebook data
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It's not charging the author for the cost incurred to the user, but for the cost incurred to Amazon. It doesn't matter if you have a 10 TBPS per second or are on your phone on edge, Amazon still has to serve the same amount of data to the customer.
$0.15 per MB is huge, I'm not going to deny that, but it's pretty clear it is also a measure to prevent abuse by the authors.
- maximilianburke 4y agoBut shouldn't that be covered by the 30% haircut they're also taking? Do Apple or Steam charge developers additionally for bundle size?
- iLoveOncall 4y agoI'm saying that it is NOT because of the ongoing bandwidth cost, but rather as a deterrent to fraud.
- pie_flavor 4y agoThat's not what they were charging the fee for. They were charging the fee to cover each Kindle having an active SIM, which is a fixed cost regardless of the book price. They don't, for example, separately charge a store entry for the cost of delivering the high quality product images; random garbage like that is what their cut is for because it generally scales with the quality of the product.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoThat doesn't make sense, why would the price be dependent on the size then?