According to analysts, Amazon now has ample room to aggressively drop the price of the Kindle Fire tablet.
Cost of supplies has fallen to $133.80 since launch, says iSuppli, down from $185.60 in November of last year.

Memory prices have fallen significantly, and the display price has fallen, too.

Notes Brad Gastwirth of independent research firm ABR Investment Strategy: "Memory prices have been in free fall - with roughly a 50 percent price reduction in the past year. On the display side prices have also come down."

The Kindle Fire currently sells for $200, the same price as the recently launched Nexus 7, which has much more powerful specs.
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124.7.2012 13:24
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This is just to make room for their newer inventory of a successor to the Kindle. After all, would Amzon let Google take their thunder? I don't think so!!

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