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Originally Posted by bhartman36
All of the existing tablets (except, as I said, the TouchPad, at the moment) are Kindles, to the extent that a tablet can be a Kindle. The biggest differentiator between a Kindle and a tablet running the Kindle software is the e-ink screen, isn't it? If you keep the e-ink screen, it's not going to be much of a tablet, and if you get rid of the e-ink screen, it's just a tablet with an Amazon logo, as far as I can tell.
I just don't see the advantage for Amazon with this.
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Because amazon also sells a lot of music, rents and sells a lot of digital video, etc? Remember that Amazon is not just about selling books.
They don't have to make much on such a gadget. They need a tablet or ipod touch clone that they can use to help suck away sales from iTunes.
Why else would they have done the Amazon App store? It's certainly not just to serve people with hacked Android tablets and for people to manually install on phones.
Plus, as a small bonus, they will help fight losing book sales to people who want shiny tablet gadgets for reading (iPad and Nook color owners).