Amazon still charges ebook publishers the same “delivery fee” for each sold digital copy (US$0.15/megabyte) as it did in the mid 2000s when Kindles came with 3g chips.

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634500

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scns 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are record companies still charging artists for vinyl breakage on mp3 downloads?

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klysm 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe the technical requirements at the time were a good excuse but as soon as you demonstrate the market will tolerate that why on earth would you remove it?

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PaulRobinson 4 hours ago | parent [-]

To turn around the famous quote: "Amazon's margin is someone else's opportunity". :)

The Amazon flywheel is all about reducing costs to consumers. The moment that stops happening, consumers can get caught by offers elsewhere, and the flywheel can start to go backwards.

	▲	morelandjs 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I physically twitch every time I hear a flywheel mentioned. Intended to be evocative of certain physics without actually substantiating any of it.

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cma 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

AWS egress prices have been the same for a decade despite massive networking advancements.

In two decades, since 2006, they've only come down by about 50%.

	▲	hnav an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's not exactly true, they expanded the free tier from 1 to 100GB/mo (1TB/mo out of CloudFront) and dropped egress from ~20c/GB to ~9c/GB. This was due to pressure from the Bandwidth Alliance formed by all the other Clouds and spearheaded by Cloudflare.