There’s one more nail being driven into Blockbuster’s coffin. Before it’s tossed into a volcano, and the ashes are dissipated into a drink that’ll be consumed at Netflix’s annual shareholders’ meeting.
Amazon is wheeling out a service called Amazon Prime, which sounds like they’re using their online stockpile to bring about the end of the world, but really they’ll be streaming music and movies for people who pay a subscription fee. A cheaper one than Netflix, as Netflix for a year’ll run you about 95.88 a year, and the new Amazon service will cost 79 dollars for their prime series. The launch’ll include about 5,000 titles, including both television and films. Netflix has 20,000 titles, so if you’ve ever decried Netflix’s selection, chances are you aren’t going to want to stray away from the herd.
The online measure is expected to add over a billion dollars to Amazon’s revenue. But experts are saying it might take years for Amazon to build up the kind of deals with media distributors that’d rival Netflix.
And realistically, everyone knows about Netflix. Netflix is built into new Xboxes. Netflix is at home, on computers across the nation. Amazon is primarily known for selling you books and really cheap furniture.
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