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Amazon To Lose $10 Per Kindle Fire

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 1, 2011 @04:50AM from the on-hardware-anyway dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a manufacturing cost breakdown, it turns out Amazon is willing to sell its new Kindle Fire at a $10 loss. An analyst estimates that the Kindle Fire, priced at $199, actually costs $209.63 to produce. That said, the device is likely to be much more valuable to Amazon through content sales and the ability to drive more purchases through its website."

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Not according to Amazon by manekineko2 · 2011-10-01 06:22 · Score: 4, Informative

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393740,00.asp#fbid=ajRIdnxQUAV
"Amazon isn't doing anything special to prevent techies from "rooting" and rewriting the software on its powerful yet inexpensive new tablet, Jon Jenkins, director of Amazon's Silk browser project said."