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Indeed. Even the Kindle and Kindle Fire made sense as platforms for selling other stuff. I don't see that here, and I'm kind of scratching my head.

• potatolicious 14y ago
  The problem with selling other stuff is that you can never corner the market with it alone. As the Kindle book store has taken over, publishers have started actively resisting the store - giving better deals to competing stores, or even leaving the "Amazon network" entirely out of protest. A content distribution network is self-limiting since content producers are scared to death of being stuck with a single de facto monopoly distributor. Hence why the studios tried to kill Netflix, and damn near succeeded. If you want to have any hope of becoming the dominating, go-to distributor for all media of a particular sort, you'd have to drag a lot of producers in kicking and screaming - this means absorbing said creators into your fold, and also "incentivizing" dissidents by having so much grade-A content on your network that it cannot be ignored (see: Hollywood's relationship with multiplexes). This move makes a lot of sense if you consider also that Amazon has tried to open their own movie studio also - they're clearly trying to create AAA-level media as a way to bootstrap their distribution network off the ground and make it harder to ignore/protest against.