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HarryT · 12-17-2013, 09:59 AM

Sorry, I'm afraid I'm unclear what point you're making. Amazon don't make profit on selling Kindles - they're sold essentially at cost price. They make money from selling content. So no, Amazon don't have a profit motive to sell existing owners a new Kindle. They DO have an incentive to provide great support to existing customers, so they keep them as customers.

As I said in my initial reply, you're not dependent upon anyone's "support" to use a Kindle with Linux; it simply mounts as a FAT32 volume.

12-17-2013, 09:59 AM	#8
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Sorry, I'm afraid I'm unclear what point you're making. Amazon don't make profit on selling Kindles - they're sold essentially at cost price. They make money from selling content. So no, Amazon don't have a profit motive to sell existing owners a new Kindle. They DO have an incentive to provide great support to existing customers, so they keep them as customers. As I said in my initial reply, you're not dependent upon anyone's "support" to use a Kindle with Linux; it simply mounts as a FAT32 volume. Last edited by HarryT; 12-17-2013 at 10:06 AM.