• $199 the amount the Amazon Kindle Fire, launched earlier this week, costs
• $209.63 the amount the Amazon Kindle Fire’s parts are estimated to cost source

• » Loss leader vs. straight-up leader: Amazon knows that the thing that was going to get the Kindle Fire to sell was the price, and it appears that even though the device is going to sell at a $10 loss per unit, they’ll make that back quickly through the sale of music and other stuff. This is a situation unlike that of Apple, which sells its devices at a profit and makes money through the sale of content. But that said, Jeff Bezos is looking particularly Jobsian these days.

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