First of all, Amazon just released the first book from Amazon Publishing. It's called "Jeff, One Lonely Guy". Why are they doing this? Well, because they can.
Amazon is jumping headlong into the business of creating content because, more than any other company, it has the potent combination of a massive base of customers and the vast technical underpinning with which to bring those customers new ways of consuming books, movies, and television programs. And as that content becomes ever more digitized, Amazon wants to call the shots as to how those books and programs are created, delivered, and sold.They're also now moving into movies.
Anyone can upload a screenplay or television pilot script to the Amazon Studios Web site, where Amazon and the community it's developed weed out the weakest and refine the most commercial, before the company commits significant financial resources to production.But more than anything else, Amazon in driving the changes in the book publishing world.
Yikes! That's wild! Can you imagine the wild things that will be uploaded? Glad I don't have to view them all :)
ReplyDeleteThey are doing movies now? Please let them be better than anything on the SyFy Channel.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to check out some of the scripts. Been a long times since I wrote a script.
ReplyDeleteI guess whoever picked out the 'Amazon' name really was thinking big.
ReplyDeleteThey have one giant footprint in this world! At least they're progressive.
ReplyDeleteAmazon sometimes reminds me of Michael Jackson's moonwalk, moving forward though it looks like moving backward >:)
ReplyDeleteCold As Heaven
Now that's an interesting visual, Cold As Heaven.
ReplyDeleteI find it amazing that Amazon was going broke before the e-book revolution. That has saved them big time.
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It's amazing that they're involved in movies now too. I came over from Alex's, and I'm so glad he recommended your informative site! Julie
ReplyDeleteAll I know is that AMAZON is the correct name for that institution ... good grief!
ReplyDeleteChristopher, Amazon sounds a bit like Amazing, too.
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