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Crazy timing. Could be a first step towards the things mentioned in http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html
by pdenya 15y ago
Crazy timing. Could be a first step towards the things mentioned in http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html
- inconditus 15y agoAmazon Studios has been out for at least 4 months previous to the writing.
- nevster 15y agoThere was a small mention of it by Bezos in the December Wired http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/ff_bezos/all/1 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/ff_bezos/all/1
- braco_alva 15y agoThanks for clearing that up, just before I read your comment I was thinkg "Wow, that was fast."
- pdenya 15y agoThanks for the info, I hadn't heard about it. Apparently a lot of other people didn't either if it's on the front page right now. Still, I can see them needing more time to ramp up before making any strategic changes angled at displacing the studios.
- absconditus 15y agoIt was launched in the fall of 2010.
- inconditus 15y agoThanks for correcting me. Also, we have similar usernames. ;)
- BryanB55 15y agoI haven't heard about it before either. I thought the same thing when I saw this.
- ja27 15y agoI stumbled on it last month and was surprised that I'd never heard of it before.
- nreece 15y agoCould be, but for now their official stand is: The goal of Amazon Studios is to work with Hollywood to turn the best projects into major feature films.
- chancho 15y ago"Some of the best ideas may initially look like they're serving the movie and TV industries. Microsoft seemed like a technology supplier to IBM before eating their lunch, and Google did the same thing to Yahoo."
- mediaman 15y agoI agree, and this would be a very typical long-term move by Amazon: they systematically partner with existing incumbents, and then develop a business model that renders them redundant. Book publishing was the first example.
- robryan 15y agoI would say also, with the YC rfs, I think any startup going down that path would be better of not being anti-hollywood as an official line.
- freshhawk 15y agoI agree that just because they work with the studios doesn't mean they don't fit the bill. I think they don't fit because it's boring. It's scaling up and updating of "I'll help you sell your screenplay" newspaper ads. Open to everyone but with predatory terms. Another middleman to the studios. It's not innovative and it's not killing anything.
- kayhi 15y agoThe goal of Amazon is to work with publishers to turn the best books into bestsellers.
- sliverstorm 15y agoThey got to learn the business from the inside first... ;)
- shorttime 15y agoI thought the same thing until I read "The goal of Amazon Studios is to work with Hollywood to turn the best projects into major feature films"