Amazon's Kindle Fire Strategy Is Working

Though Amazon loses money on the production of each Kindle Fire, the company more than makes up for it in digital media sales -- just as planned. With its chintzy feel, slow interface and bugs, the Kindle Fire hasn't impressed. But for Amazon that doesn't matter, because for each Kindle sold, the company makes over $100 in additional revenue, according to         research from investment firm RBC Capital. And even though the $199 tablet has its issues, it's selling. 

"We don't think of the Kindle Fire as a tablet. We think of it as a service," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told Businessweek after making the tablet announcement. But the fact the the Kindle Fire is a tablet, and not a laptop or smartphone, makes a difference. Tablets bring out our inner online shopper. Tablet users spend over 50 percent more per purchase then smartphone users and 20 percent more than computer shoppers, according to research  released by Adobe today. That same research concluded that tablet shoppers are three times more likely to make a purchase than phone users. 

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