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Old 10-02-2012, 06:44 PM   #357
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Originally Posted by KTrain View Post
Amazon has content though. They're selling more eBooks than real books now.

Google doesn't have the same amount of content sales right now to subsidize their tablets indefinitely.
Fortunately its not a huge subsidy... they actually make about $15 on the 8GB model of the Nexus 7, more on the 16GB and that is the bulk of where their tablet sales come from.

They aren't losing money on the tablet sales... just the margins are razor thin.
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