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Originally Posted by HarryT
Can you provide some data to support this?
We know (because Mr Bezos has publicly said so) that Amazon make no profit from the PW - it's sold at cost. If, as seems extremely likely, the Oasis is sold at a profit, it's still a revenue stream for Amazon, which the PW is not.
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Could it just be that with the Oasis Amazon decided that e-reader penetration had reached a level that no longer required Amazon to use it as a lose leader? Hence, we should no longer expect any inexpensive Kindles since they have to contribute to Amazon's bottom figures.