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Originally Posted by Geralt
..because the company that makes them can't make any money like that! But selling ebooks? Y..
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Do you have any proof to back above statement, it doesn't look like selling ereader is more of non-profit, because all hardware they use is very entry level. If a powerful
raspberry Pi can be offered for 35 USD then a kindle which less than half in specs should hover around same range assuming that they have added screen and plastic around. Also consider that raspberry may not be mass produced at the same scale.
Funny that i have a tiny USB modem with ARM7 processor and 512MB of ram, double in power than a basic kindle. Keeping the cost down is good thing but it is not true Amazon is NOT making decent profit from it. You know in shopping mall near my place kobo reader was offered at about 32 USD where original price was approx 115 usd, they found no market for kobo reader and moved to kindle only, and I dont thing they sold last stock at loss.
Crux of my paragraph is, from top it appears that kindle or other ereader are subsidized but they have also scaled down on hardware side and that too only most basic hardwares are added, thereby keeping the profit same.
You may get the hardware quotes from alibaba I guess that for 1000 piece of 64 mb RAM they wil quote 0.5 usd per unit
