IS this guy on crack?
 

CYBERSPACE - Glenn Fleishman thought it might be a clever idea to offer his new book, Real World Adobe GoLive6 (with Jeff Carlson) as a free e-book download. Just a few hundred downloads expected, right? Wrong. The book proved a little more popular than he thought - like about ten thousand downloads in 36 hours worth of popular. And it could cost him a whopping $15,000 at the end of the month, because he's charged incrementally for his bandwidth, Wired says.

"It's a financial catastrophe," said Fleishman to the magazine. "I'm a working stiff with a mortgage ... I never suspected the penalty would be so high for giving something away.... It's like living in Singapore and getting 15 years in jail for chewing gum." All this to give a boost to a book that wasn't selling well in hardcopy. The former programmer and New York Times writer said he figured better to offer the whole book as a free .pdf download. There went that idea.

One problem was the file for the entire book took up 23MB because of its thick volume of graphics, Wired said. "I was aware I would be charged a fortune for high bandwidth," he said. "But I never suspected we would have topped a few hundred downloads." Boy, was he in for a surprise. He posted the .pdf-formatted book March 18. By March 20, Wired said, he learned the hard way how much traffic he'd attracted, pulling the fill offline - but not before he was liable for about 250GB worth of download.


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250 gigabytes, I pay, lol, 25$ not 15,000$

whats wrong with these people?

tell him you'll host the book for an editorial plug at the start of each chapter.

lol, why would I host his book, he might bankrupt me,

lol, there is nothing special abotu a 10cent gig, or a 1$ gig,

250 gigs costs him 15000$, thants 60$ a gig,

it must be some fucking host,

Hosting for only $60 a gig?

Where do I sign up?

:1orglaugh

Pay per download, brotha, pay per download... damn. At least have some XXX popups or something

Talk about naive... but regardless, who charges $60 a GB for hosting? must be one of those non-porn hosts...

"like about ten thousand downloads in 36 hours worth of popular. And it could cost him a whopping $15,000 at the end of the month"


could at the end of the month at the rate his using bw now.

oh yah, your right, so not 60$ a gig,

ill re do the math,

they are thinking 15,000$ for a month, of that, doing 250gigs a day, which is like 30mbs, or less,

I mean shit, one dedicated server pushing 100mbs is not 15,000$ a month,

maybe somewhere from 3000$ to 8000$, and thats at 100mbs,

at 30mbs, he should be at 1500$ to 3000$ a month, even for the good stuff,

someone is ripping him a new one, with like 10$ gigs or something,

its really funny to me, how some hosts can get away with this kinda pricing,

ah fuck it,

he neads so tranny exit pops and hes all set,

everyone who downloads books from the internet is into trannys,

thats called niche trageting of your traffic,

once he learns to send to a niche hell be all set