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swanysto said:
I can't explain to you why, but are video games cheaper to download than to buy the physical copy?

Also, don't the ebook sellers need to pay for bandwidth? I realize ebooks are not massive, but when millions of people are downloading books, there has to be costs there.
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Lol, the cost of each individual book in respect to the bandwidth they consume is negligible

As for video games, i get much better deals going digital (via steam mostly)

I got 2 very popular games, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and LA Noire for $5 each downloading them.

I would never see those types of deals for DVD version of the games (and especially Xbox/Ps3 versions)
 
Phokus said:
Lol, the cost of each individual book in respect to the bandwidth they consume is negligible

As for video games, i get much better deals going digital (via steam mostly)

I got 2 very popular games, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and LA Noire for $5 each downloading them.

I would never see those types of deals for DVD version of the games (and especially Xbox/Ps3 versions)
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QFT.

Digital games are cheap! Digital books should be too. The bandwidth books take up is negligible.
 
MrX8503 said:
QFT.

Digital games are cheap! Digital books should be too. The bandwidth books take up is negligible.
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Which reminds me, the bandwidth that games is GIGANTIC, and i'm getting fantastic deals on games for pennies on the dollar. These games are 10 gigabytes a download or more. E-books are hardly anything in bandwidth. Did some searching:

Well.. it really depends on the type of E-book .. usually an Ebook without images runs around from 300kb to 800kb ..

an illustrated one would run a lot more upto around 10-20 mbs ..

Lets say you are reading all text unillustrated ebooks with an average sige of 500kb ..

so basically for every mb .. you fit 2 E-books .. 32gb = 32000 mb which is approx .. 64000 e-books ..

and for a 64gb its 128000 e-books .. thats the general math .. but usually not all books are 500kb .. and you dont really have 32000mb free .. say more like 28500mb or something .. you should still be far more comfortable fitting around 25000 e-books with a decent bit of music and videos as well ..
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I already buy my music from Amazon, if they can lower e-books, I'll probably start buying my ebooks from them from now on.
 
There's only a few ebooks I've paid $9.99+ for. $5-8 non-sale pricing for catalog titles would be awesome. At the rate I read I'd gladly spend $10-15 a month on books and supplement the rest with library loans.
 
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