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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
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).
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And they have android app store, the cloud (where you can store your music for free) anyone thinking of books, videos, etc.?
They need a color tablet for magazines/color books/comics/etc.
They are experimenting with advertised supported kindles -- this likely plays into the mix as well...
They just announced library lending...
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