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Excerpt from a 5/28/09 Seattle Times article by Amy Martinez:

But is the Kindle making any money yet?

Bezos' response seemed to be "no."

Amazon's digital-media business is in "investment mode," he said, noting that the Kindle took more than three years to develop.

"If something is successful, it seems to take five to seven years or more before it's a positive contributor to the economics," he said.

The entire article: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009273587_webamazon28.html