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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
The Kindle Fire is mostly just a gateway to Amazon content. When it was first released, they were probably selling it for pretty much at cost and making money off Prime subscriptions, ebooks, apps, music, etc. How many countries does Amazon have media licensing deals in?
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I dont know there intimate business dealings and they for sure don't know mine, they made a blunder for what ever reason and missed there chance and now they will have to wait until they roll out the kindle fire 2 when ever that comes out .
BUT times have changed and the markets A LOT TOUGHER, which is good for us
customers
Here in England they rolled out all the E Ink ebook readers and the books to go with them + web support so it could not of been that much more of stretch to bring the fire to UK and Europe .If they had they would of had a lot more sales as well as long term customers.
IF they try to launch the kindle fire now here it will get washed up on the shores like a dead squid and only previous kindle E Ink reader buyer's would probably purchase it out of amazon loyalty.
A $200 kindle fire in the US would be selling for around £200 =$310 as all the kindle ebook readers sold in the UK are more expensive( higher sales tax 20% and other reasons)
KINDLE TOUCH 3G UK PRICE - 262.147 USD
KINDLE TOUCH 3G USA PRICE - 149 usd
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-D0110...N%3DB0051QVF7A