The idea of economists to use artificial scarcity pricing to do this is aggressively marketed in blogs, magazines and TV shows, but is extremely unlikely to work, because the current price elasticity of oil is so low.

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So Amazon will undoubtedly continue to aggressively price its tablets at around the cost of making them, thereby creating an extremely low price umbrella for everything but the newest iPads.

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