http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amazon-studios-jeff-bezos-roy-price-zelda-1202552532/ http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amazon-studios-jeff-bezos-ro... I think A

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amazon-studios-jeff-bezos-roy-price-zelda-1202552532/ http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amazon-studios-jeff-bezos-ro... I think Amazon is trying to shift away from that approach with the push to get a "Game of Thrones" type show on Prime Video. Here's Stratechery's take on it: > ... focusing Amazon Prime Video on massive hits that break through into the popular consciousness rationalizes the service considerably. If the ultimate goal is signups, then by definition producing shows that everyone is talking about is more important than building out a fleshed-out content library. Netflix has to worry about having plenty of content to keep people coming back; Amazon has the rest of Prime to accomplish that. From: https://stratechery.com/2017/amazon-studios-shifts-strategy-spotify-and-hulu-facebook-to-spend-1-billion-on-video/ https://stratechery.com/2017/amazon-studios-shifts-strategy-... (that site is subscription-only, but I think there are quite a few subscribers here. If I'd seen non-paywalled analysis on this I'd link to it. Sorry if it's not kosher to post paywalled sites! Some of his other writing on Amazon is free to read.)