What the Kindle Fire Means to Amazon?

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I just wrote a post about what the Kindle Fire means to the tablet market, but what does it mean to Amazon? Why did Amazon chose to enter the tablet market? In short, there are two reasons.

First, Amazon is a retail company. They sell things. And what they have begun to sell a lot of is digital products. Music. Videos. Games. Books. And, what’s more, they see the opportunities to sell more bits with tablet-based applications (i.e., the Amazon Android store). Now the Kindle wa...