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I would've expected the ebooks to be cheaper. They don't require physical manufacturing, packaging or home delivery. They probably do incur Amazon a persistent
by septerr 14y ago
I would've expected the ebooks to be cheaper. They don't require physical manufacturing, packaging or home delivery. They probably do incur Amazon a persistent charge in the form of keeping them stored in their servers and keeping track of who bought which book, so the buyers can re-download their books. They could very well expire the re-download for a purchase after a certain amount of time. But it is possible, the lifelong storage of the digital books management of their ownership, downoads etc. make an ebook more expensive for Amazon.
- JonLim 14y agoThanks for taking the time to read and comment, I'll reply here as well! --- I expected them to be cheaper as well. However, the cost of storing the books is probably close to nil - Amazon has leagues of servers at their control, I doubt a book that's a couple hundred kbs would create a storage issue. And, as I found out in my last post, it's actually the publishers who set the prices. They take Amazon's 30% into account, and then some.