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• «competition for rack space», there is no rack space to compete for (there is competition for attention, that that is the same for every sellable thing). I'm
by glhaynes 15y ago
• «competition for rack space», there is no rack space to compete for (there is competition for attention, that that is the same for every sellable thing).
I'm not sure I see the difference.
- guns 15y agoThere is no opportunity cost for putting a digital book on the "shelf". Alternately, you must build a rack a mile long to offer the same breadth of selection.
- Turing_Machine 15y agoExactly, and even if you could do that, where would you set it up? Even the largest bookstore has limited floor space, and that's not even considering those small convenience store spinning racks and the like. Ebooks are roughly 50-250 KB in size. Figure out how many of those you could fit on a hundred buck TB drive. :-)
- Ein2015 15y agohttp://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+terabyte+%2F+50+kilobytes http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+terabyte+%2F+50+kilob... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+terabyte+%2F+250+kilobytes http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+terabyte+%2F+250+kilo... So, between 4x10^6 and 2x10^7.