By: Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet costs $209.63 to build, according to an analysis by IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service. That figure includes $191.65 in materials in addition to manufacturing expenses. Amazon plans on retailing the 7-inch tablet for $199. “The real benefit of the Kindle Fire to Amazon will not be in selling hardware or digital content,” read a Sept. 30 research note accompanying the analysis. “Rather, the Kindle Fire, and the content demand it stimulates, will serve to promote sales of the kinds of physical goods that comprise the majority of Amazon’s business.”
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