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Really? They get data centers and bandwidth for free? Meanwhile Amazon Cloudfront charges $0.12 per Gb. What was that about data centres and bandwidth again?

by pja 12y ago

Really? They get data centers and bandwidth for free? Meanwhile Amazon Cloudfront charges $0.12 per Gb. What was that about data centres and bandwidth again? Be serious: $0.15 per Mb is a massive rip-off compared to the actual cost of delivery, unless the download is over 3G in which case it's merely an obnoxious markup rather than an outright rapacious one.

res0nat0r 12y ago
That bandwidth price is helping to pay for much more of the kindle ecosystem than just bits from s3.
- chrismcb 12y ago
  I would have thought the rest of what they charge the consumer is what pays for the "kindle ecosystem." Not like the "kindle ecosystem" costs all the much to run.
  - res0nat0r 12y ago
    It's more expensive to run than you think.
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Turing_Machine 12y ago
Be serious yourself. $0.15 (considerably less in most cases) is a trivial amount of money. Or you can go for the 30% deal and have Amazon eat the costs. You'll still be getting twice what you'll get from a traditional publisher.