Jeff Bezos wants Amazon to be the next HBO, Showtime – New York Post (Feb 13, 2017)
This feels like a totally logical next step for Amazon, which already has lots of both episodic and feature length content, and has been selling other companies’ premium channels for a while now. It’s presumably learning a lot from selling Showtime and the like, and has seen an opportunity to add yet another layer of subscription revenue to the base Prime membership. One big question, of course, is how it will divvy up its original and acquired content between the existing Prime service and this premium tier – any exclusivity around the paid channel dilutes the value of the base subscription, which Amazon wouldn’t want to do. It’s possible that this will be an offering primarily aimed at non-Prime subscribers, or part of its video-only version.
via New York Post
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