Barnes & Noble have been in publishing since the 1970s, but in recent years they’ve been squaring up to Amazon in the world of digital reading. Now they’re selling off their paper publishing division to focus on tech.
Unsurprisingly, Black Friday was pretty successful for Amazon, which is shipping out Kindles at a staggering rate. As usual, though, we have no idea what that rate is. You dark horse, Amazon.
There had been rumours that the Kindle Fire cost more to build than Amazon was selling it for, and that rumour is true. According to iSuppli, every one of those tiny tablets costs $US201.70 to build.
We’ve more or less accepted ereaders as the best way to read a book digitally, but there’s still a whole lot that gadgets can do that ereaders suck at — literally anything you own with a screen is better at this stuff than an ereader. The Kindle Touch is the first to really bridge that gap in a way that makes sense.
That jaw-dropping $US79 price point on Amazon’s new Kindle just got a little nuttier: It turns out the thing costs a $US84.25 to manufacture, according to an exclusive report to Mainstreet by serial gear teardowner iSuppli.
