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bemmu on June 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000%

Maybe kindles are manufactured at a loss and these delivery fees are then part of the device cost?

takluyver on June 12, 2012 [–]

But that's not a "delivery fee", which makes it kind of dishonest. Amazon already take a fixed 30% cut, which ought to include any subsidy on the devices.

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