How Much Kindles Make You Buy More from Amazon

(12/17/2013) $443 per year, based on a research done by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP). The headline on Time.com is misleading. The kindle users don't spend more (some maybe), but other retailers lose $443 per year to Amazon.com. That is what Mr. Bezos gets when he sell you Kindle tablets at the price of its production cost. Kindles do fulfill its mission: get Amazon Kindle users to spend more. Since Kindles suck out spendings from consumer's pockets so well, no wonder Amazon give consumers more BONUS: $57 to own a Kindle Fire FDX tablet and pay the leftover in next 90 days.