Report: $79 Amazon Kindle Costs $84 to Make

Amazon's new, entry-level Inflame eReader is priced as low as $79 simply costs $84 to make, accordant to a teardown psychoanalysis by marketing research crisp IHS iSuppli.

A new iSuppli study pegs the summate manufacturing cost of the Wi-Fi Kindle, which is $79 with "special offers" (advertisements) Oregon $109 without ads, at $84.25, Mainstreet reports.

The Inflame's bill of materials comes to $78.59 for components that admit a 6-edge, E-ink display and 2GB of flash storage, reported to iSuppli. In addition, the Wi-Fi Kindle costs $5.66 to assemble.

Amazon's effective production costs Crataegus oxycantha exceed $84, according to Mainstreet. The iSuppli cost estimate doesn't include extra expenses such as software, licensing fees, and shipping charges.

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So how does Amazon River offer a product below cost and allay make money on it? Well, since it places ads on the $79 Kindle, which acts as an lepton hoarding when idle, Amazon English hawthorn actually be making a slim profit–operating room at any rate breaking even–on from each one unit oversubscribed.

And if does lose money on to each one $79 Kindle it sells, Amazon may make ascending the loss connected aftermarket sales, including digital books and magazines, to its eReader customers.

The WI-Fi Fire International Relations and Security Network't Amazon's only loss-guiding slate, apparently. A recent iSuppli teardown analysis of the $199 Kindle Fire reported that the 7-inch color tablet costs $209.63 to manufacture. Again, Amazon's strategy is to make up the loss via music, game, video, and app sales to Kindle Can users.

What does the future hold? Before you know it, select Kindle and competing eReaders may very well be free, provided customers are willing to purchase a specific number of ebooks or former digital content as part of the deal.

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