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500,000 x $20 = $10 million Obviously there would be handling costs + scanning costs, so that’s the floor. Maybe $20 million total? Plus, of course, the time
by GMoromisato 1y ago
500,000 x $20 = $10 million
Obviously there would be handling costs + scanning costs, so that’s the floor.
Maybe $20 million total? Plus, of course, the time it would take to execute.
- riskable 1y agoThe real expense is in the data centers/hardware. The cost of the books is negligible in comparison.
- Scoundreller 1y agoSomewhere a gritty warehouse in a developing country is receiving shipping containers of old books, massive teams manually flipping each page as a 2nd hand Canon digicam takes a pic of each page, to be OCR’d by the same AI being trained. Once the book is done, 99% of them go into the furnace at the district heating boiler next door. The other 1% back to a developed country for resale.