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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
It does not make good business sense to give a discounted (or free) Kindle to any account that has low or no interest in reading on an e-ink device. There is a cost to purchase, ship, support every Kindle. There may be a model which works if the Kindle lands in the right hands which will then *purchase* Amazon Kindle books. If Amazon earns $3 per book as commission from the publisher, leaving out the cost of running the servers and book service itself, each "free" Kindle requires perhaps 50 books to be sold to recover the cost. It's essential the device lands in the right hands.
I believe the current model -- the device division has a mandate to make a profit and the ebook division has a mandate to make a profit -- will be the one Amazon continues to follow in 2011.
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So let's just say that at the current cost of a Kindle, each Kindler (person with a Kindle) would have to purchase 75 books to to make the venture attractive. That's $750 dollars american, with 50 million Kindles, 37.5 billion dollars, where would all that money go?? lol, not to mention the fact that the average book budget for a year in the united states is nowhere close to 750 dollars.
But over 5 years? Do Kindles even last that long? 75 books would be 150 dollars a year. Still a bit much. Although some people do spend a lot more than that.
Perhaps high school english classes should be considered?
Eventually the Kindle is going to be disposable right? Maybe we should just wait till then.