Can we talk about Amazon's data fees for its kindle platform?

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Can we talk about Amazon's data fees for its kindle platform?

I've put up with them for years, but it's started really pissing me off lately looking at my income sheets and seeing up to 50% of my sales go directly to Amazon, before I get taxed. The delivery fee for eBooks is extortionate.

>15c per MB
>A rate of $150 per GB

Now, considering that expense is taken directly from the sale, it's effectively charging YOU that rate to sell your books on their platform.So who in their right mind would take a data plan for $150 per GB of data? According to Amazon... Amazon. They "pay" those rates and then hand you the bill for their generosity. Now, what I wasnt to know is, if they are charging these "base" rates for data, then how the hell are they not bankrupt beyond belief for their S3 data sharing platform, which has rates of 0.02 cents per GB?

I'm willing to bet that their Kindle platform is ran by their S3 data servers and THAT is they cost they are incurring for their data... 0.02-0.1 cents per GB.

So what they are doing is charging you their 30% "sales fee" and then on top of that, charging you an extortionate data transfer rate and fraudulently lining their pockets with huge chunks of distribution. How is this not criminal, and how are more people not insanely pissed about it?
I'm willing to bet Amazon makes more money from their data free (which is supposed to be "at cost") than they do from their sales free.