The Price Difference Between Book and Kindle Prices on Amazon

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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 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.

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment, I'll reply here as well!

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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.

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