Alternatively, if your space and budget permit, you could investigate buying in bulk from vendors in order to lower your per unit cost.

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Those gains take two forms: less electricity consumption and a lower cost per unit of processing power.

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Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production size of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.

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Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production scale (size) of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.

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Lower unit labor costs are confirmed by the employment cost index.

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SITA's network at incremental cost, its unit costs are far lower than its actual volumes would imply.

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These indie authors are earning 60, 70, 80 percent of the retail prices as their royalty, so they are able to sell lower cost ebooks, but still earn a higher per unit royalty per ebook than they would if they were working with a traditional publisher.

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Greater production efficiencies and higher production volumes led to lower cost, enabling some ability to lower prices but the ability of the industry to sustain unit growth as well as storage capacity growth to match the needs of content hungry users and protect itself from competing technologies is threatened by the relentless drop in HDD ASPs.

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