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Think of the kindle as a loss leader for them to sell books. They probably make more money selling e-books than from the device itself.

• sib 5y ago
  They don't just make more money from the ebooks, that is the only source of profit. In general, they lose money on the Kindle readers.
• notatoad 5y ago
  while that's likely true for the cheaper models, an oasis+cover bundle is $375cdn. that's a lot of ebooks.