[ilamont]

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

[klysm]

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?

[PaulRobinson]

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]

I physically twitch every time I hear a flywheel mentioned. Intended to be evocative of certain physics without actually substantiating any of it.

[knollimar]

What does it mean, really? I see it used more like catalyst or enablar than momentum storage. I'm still unsure.

[scns]

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

[cma]

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]

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.

[cma]

~20c/GB to ~9c/GB was the 2006-2026 halving I mentioned. Two decades to drop by half.

[hnav]

Accounting for inflation that's more like dropped by 75%. As AWS position as market leader erodes we'll likely see further drops.

[MagicMoonlight]

And it costs them nothing, because they have free peering agreements with every network.