Nice complimentary article about Amazon.Money quote:
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Amazon's Kindle family of electronic reading devices gives it the ability to offer books in a way that hasn't been available before. The company can crank out short works, such as Ragsdale's book. It can mine sales data from its international operations to find bestsellers that it then translates and sells to its English-speaking customers, as it did with "The Hangman's Daughter," a German work of historical fiction by Oliver Pötzsch.
Amazon is trying to change the rules in Hollywood as well. The company is creating a new model for making movies and television programs, tapping its vast Web presence to crowdsource concepts. 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.
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I doubt that Amazon will change inthe movie industry the way it changed the book industry. For one thing, its relatively easy to self-publish a book. Making a movie or TV show is more difficult by an order of magnitude.
The article does show, though, that Amazon is serious about pushing into thecontent creation business, and not just books.