{"id":2301,"date":"2011-10-08T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2011-10-08T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T16:31:19","slug":"amazon-plans-to-sell-kindle-fire-at-a-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Plans to Sell Kindle Fire at a Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon will be down more than $10 before each new owner boots up their newly purchased Kindle Fire and begins purchasing digital content.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because the Fire, priced at just $199, costs about $210 to produce, according to IHS iSuppli. The research firm noted yesterday that Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bill of materials for their incoming tablet is $191.65, with additional manufacturing expenses bringing the total cost of production to $209.63.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon will make that money back and more with sales of digital content, according to IHS iSuppli analysts. The research firm expects the average sale of digital content will deliver a profit of about $10 per unit sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon will be down more than $10 before each new owner boots up their newly purchased Kindle Fire and begins purchasing digital content. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because the Fire, priced at just $199, costs about $210 to produce, according to IHS iSuppli. The research firm noted yesterday that Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bill of materials for their incoming tablet is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}