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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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Well if an anlyst says so it must be true by blahbooboo · 2011-10-01 04:55 · Score: 5, Insightful

Gosh, these analysts get such huge salaries and most of the time they are wrong. What a great job!
1. Re:Well if an anlyst says so it must be true by Xacid · 2011-10-01 05:03 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I find it hard to believe an estimation like this could even consider a $10 dollar difference not within margin of error. Pretty much non-news here.