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Re:Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% by teamonkey on Monday June 11, 2012 @11:02PM (#4098477)
Amazon apply the fee regardless of delivery method. Check out the link posted by kennethcwilbur elsewhere in this thread.

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A29FL26O...

Amazon charge $0.15/MB and the book was approximately 18MB in size.

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Re:Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% by sjwright on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @12:08AM (#4098696)
And that fee would be more reasonable if Amazon allowed authors to provide optimised versions of their book suitable for e-readers that don't have high resolution colour screens.
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Re:Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% by frozenflame on Monday June 11, 2012 @11:58PM (#4098660)
I don't particularly approve of their pricing, but to be fair the book could be downloaded many times over 3G in the future included in that initial delivery cost.
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