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Re:Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% by ricree on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @03:25AM (#4099262)
He's comparing the stated delivery fee to Amazon's S3 costs for outgoing data, which he says costs $0.01 per 5 books.
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Re:Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% by smackfu on Friday June 15, 2012 @10:15AM (#4116575)
Of course, if he had a 50 kB book that had a $0.01 delivery fee, it would still be the same percentage markup, but he wouldn't care. So I question whether percentage is useful here.
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