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Originally Posted by Solicitous
That is what I was getting at, why would Amazon drop the price of the Kindle to try and attract readers when the Kindle App for the iPad will attract them anyway?
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Because from reports they make more money selling Kindle hardware than they do selling e-books.
With forcing most things at $9.99 or under, they're not getting much of a cut on e-books sold, they're using prices to sell Kindle hardware.
They put out the Apps to expand the Kindle market as well--tout the best reading experience as in e-ink on the Kindle, but you can also use whisper synch and pick up where you left off on your PC, Phone, iPad etc.