The Amazon Kindle is now selling for about $70 bucks. This wonderful piece of high tech gear is full of complicated hardware and runs on some amazing software. It is an amazing little gizmo.
It is also amazing that a simple leather and plastic protective cover for the Kindle runs $40. The cover has no electronics, has no moving parts. It is just a piece of plain black leather glued onto a piece of molded plastic. How can it be that the cover costs more than half the price of the Kindle itself?