Netflix Spends 20 Times More on Postage than Bandwidth

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Digital Society: “It currently costs Netflix up to $1 per DVD mailed round trip while a typical streamed movie costs 5 cents. With 2 million DVDs per day being shipped, Netflix is spending $700M per year in physical disk postage and that number continues to decline as Netflix adds more streaming content.”

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Jason A. Heppler
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Occasional writing on the American West, agricultural history, and political culture.