Comments on: Kindle 2 costs $185, 3.5 million eReader sales in 2009 – iSuppli

By: Adam S

Adam S — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:09:05 +0000

These tear down costs are fairly common, they do them with ipods, etc. They pretty much always do them with just materials, not including labor, sunk costs of R&D, distribution costs and other licensing costs like IP or whispernet.

By: switch11

switch11 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:08:07 +0000

I do agree that labor and development costs need to be accounted for. However, whispernet costs ought to be, and probably are, included in the cost of books and content.

By: Liza Lee Miller

Liza Lee Miller — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:05:52 +0000

Labor costs? Product development costs? The fact that WhisperNet is free for life of product? While I won’t say their information is meaningless . . . what is their point? The retail is less than twice the “actual” costs which is saying something for retail. And, clearly people feel its worth it.