Amazon Losing $10 on Every Kindle Fire

Posted by acak on Sunday October 02, 2011 @01:19PM
from the pcmag.com dept.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393947,00.asp#fbid=wv21ok3cKmV

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Re:Amazon Losing $10 on Every Kindle Fire by tokenadult on Sunday October 02, 2011 @02:03PM (#3063492)

Previous HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058207

By the way, HN Search was an epic fail at finding this earlier thread, but it easily turned up in a site-restricted search on Google.

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Re:Amazon Losing $10 on Every Kindle Fire by bzupnick on Sunday October 02, 2011 @01:23PM (#3063376)

Well, this just exemplifies what everyone has been saying; that amazon's business model isn't the hardware, it's what's sold after that initial buying of the hardware.

So they lose $10 per tablet, but people buy a lot more then that in merchandise.

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Re:Amazon Losing $10 on Every Kindle Fire by xefer on Sunday October 02, 2011 @03:04PM (#3063652)

Razors and blades. They'd give them away if they had guarantees people would purchase enough stuff through them.

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