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Re:Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% by bemmu on Monday June 11, 2012 @08:08PM (#4097859)
Maybe kindles are manufactured at a loss and these delivery fees are then part of the device cost?
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Re:Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% by takluyver on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:49AM (#4100152)
But that's not a "delivery fee", which makes it kind of dishonest. Amazon already take a fixed 30% cut, which ought to include any subsidy on the devices.
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