The $79 Kindle Costs Amazon $84 to Make

[Kurz]

[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]they're takin it from the european ppl for 99 €[/citation]

No... this is a missnomer. The cost of doing business in Europe is much greater.
Higher taxes, tarrifs, Regulation, Laws added up to it costing $50 more in Europe.
$79 here, $135 in Europe.

No its not Amazon trying to charge you more... Its the governments fault for making it more expensive to do business there.

 

[Caffeinecarl]

I hope they make it so that if you get sick of ads, you can "unlock" the device so that you can remove the ads.

 

[thrasher32]

Amazon is my favorite etailer because of their great prices and business practices. Just another example.

 

[thrasher32]

[citation][nom]nforce4max[/nom]Now consider the cost of packaging and shipping, it is more than $84 for the final cost of each unit. In the long run they are built very cheaply like most tablets and piles of these with cracked screens are on eBay all the time. It is to thin and underweight for there to be enough protection for the screen so they can bend and flex enough to crack then screen. Almost all tablets are useless with a broken screen or broken screen digitizer. Archos is built like there is nothing there but cardboard and no real rma policy unless one forks over $200 for a replacement. Coby often has issues with internal nand flash going bad so they fail to boot, also cracked screen digitizer. Velocity Micro has the same screen digitizer as most other tablets but uses a slot MIPS cpu instead so it can't run most apps. Pandigital's screen digitizer cracks easy but it easily fixed and built rather well compared to most, terrible wifi. Apps and date stored on separate nand flash micro sdhc card. Ipad same cracked screen issues as others but a lot less freedom about data. There is a lot of others to name but the issues are mostly all the same besides lack of ram, slow cpu, flimsy construction, dangerous battery (Lithium polymer) that bloat up, apps comparability, and lack of any expandability and ports.[/citation]


Yeah, but it only costs $79....

 

[eddieroolz]

Amazon simply makes back its $5 loss by selling a lot of eBooks. Good business.