Part for part and with manufacturing costs taken into account, Amazon appears to be losing $10 for every Kindle Fire tablet it sells, according to a build of materials estimate IHS iSuppli put together. The reason Amazon can afford to sell hardware at a loss -- if in fact the mega online retailer really is losing money -- is because it will make up for it in services and sales after the fact. If the numbers are correct, Amazon will have to make up $950,000 just to account for the first day of pre-order sales.
The Kindle Fire still has some ground to make up before it flirts with iPad-like numbers. Back in April 2010, eDataSource figured Apple sold 350,000 iPad devices on the first day, and 300,000 iPad 2 devices on its first day. There's still plenty of time for the Kindle Fire to reach or exceed those kinds of numbers, as it doesn't ship until the middle of November.
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