{"id":4801,"date":"2011-10-03T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2011-10-03T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:38:36","slug":"amazons-kindle-fire-is-a-loss-leader-but-still-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/amazons-kindle-fire-is-a-loss-leader-but-still-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Fire Is A Loss Leader, But Still A Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amazon_fire-e1317222350794.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4733 alignleft\" title=\"amazon_fire\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amazon_fire-e1317222350794-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amazon_fire-e1317222350794-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amazon_fire-e1317222350794.jpeg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isuppli.com\/Teardowns\/News\/Pages\/Amazon-Sells-Kindle-Fire-at-Low-Profit-Margin-to-Promote-Online-Merchandize-Sales.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">IHS iSuppli Research reports<\/a> that the Amazon Kindle Fire, priced at $199, has $191.65 worth of parts and has a full manufacturing cost of $209.63. This means that with each machine, the online retailer actually loses a few bucks. Amazon likely intends to pick up the difference with media sales, and it&#8217;s not that bad a business model. Sony has been doing the same thing with the PS3 for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/05\/playstation-3-still-a-loss-leader-six-cents-for-every-dollar\/\" target=\"_blank\">years<\/a>. With first day pre-orders of the Fire <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emaildatasource.com\/blog\/monitoring-email-marketing\/kindle-fire-sales-reach-an-estimated-95000-units-during-first-day-of-sales-according-to-estimates-provided-by-edatasource\" target=\"_blank\">estimated<\/a> to be about $95,000, it certainly seems like it can work here too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IHS iSuppli Research reports that the Amazon Kindle Fire, priced at $199, has $191.65 worth of parts and has a full manufacturing cost of $209.63. This means that with each machine, the online retailer actually loses a few bucks. Amazon likely intends to pick up the difference with media sales, and it&#8217;s not that bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[244,1398,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4806,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}