Amazon subsidiary IMDB pushed free on-line films

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September 17, according to foreign media reports, the Amazon subsidiary IMDB (Internet Movie Database) will provide visitors with free on-line movies and TV series and create an opportunity for the filmmakers to display their works to global audience .

IMDB Monday, users will be in the company's Web site for free online viewing of 6,000 feature films, TV dramas and classic old films, feature films such as "extremely fanatical" (Fever Pitch) and the "roof of the violinist" (Fiddler on the Roof), TV series "Big Brother" (Big Brother) and "Crime Scene Investigation" (CSI) and the old classic film "Trek Trek" (Star Trek) and "Thunderball Jiaowa" (Charlie's Angels), and so on.

IMDB users will provide a recommended list, but not all the names of movies and TV dramas are included, in order to find a roster of no movies or television dramas, users must enter their name, and the same time can only watch one. IMDB of these films and TV dramas were the most detailed breakdown, such as film star or producer, also provide the location, movie reviews and fan sites, and other information.

IMDB founder and executive director of Col Needham said: "We have to be able to provide users with simple, free online viewing experience is exciting." He claims he has watched more than 7,000 movies.

In addition, IMDB will allow the global producers and rights owners to Imdb.com 57 million visitors a month to display their works.

January this year, IMDB acquired Los Angeles-based media company Without A Box, began to focus to the independent film business expansion. Withoutabox.com Film Festival allows artists to submit films directly to the fans and promote the works, film festival organizers to provide for on-line management and marketing tool.

CBS, Hulu, Sony Pictures Television (Sony Pictures Television) and more than 500 other independent filmmakers to provide video content to IMDB, which will play a part.

Although there are 6,000 movies and TV dramas to choose from, but not on the IMDB watch each movie. If the IMDB can not watch a movie, the user will be informed in the Amazon site to watch.

Amazon earlier this month said it would provide 40,000 customers without advertising the copyright movies and TV dramas, users can video-on-demand as of the Amazon (Amazon Video On Demand) services in the PC and Mac on-line viewing, Previously only after downloading to use a PC or TiVo to watch. Currently, this service is only applicable to Amazon's U.S. customers.

Amazon video-on-demand service manager Roy Price, Amazon customers put forward a number of functional requirements, the highest one is that video content can be watched without downloaded.

Amazon launched student version of Kindle Reader

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Seattle local media Seattle PI recently confirmed that Amazon said that they will soon launch a new version of Kindle e-book reader for college students.

According to foreign media reports, the U.S. textbook market, the current size of 5.5 billion U.S. dollars, most publishers have been introduced in the electronic version of the textbook. But after the market is not a suitable equipment to read electronic textbooks. Students will follow Kindle Kindle version of the usual large-screen style, become the electronic version of the pioneers of the textbook readers.

Since last November launched Kindle, the Amazon sales of the product has not been to be open. Technology blog site Techcrunch had expected its sales of up to the current 240,000. And Citigroup Investment Research analyst Mark Mahaney is expected, Kindle introduced in the first year sales of up to 38 of the End.

However, U.S. market research firm McAdams Wright Ragen recently disclosed that Amazon considered the forecast of Techcrunch and Citigroup as unreasonable, and totally inconsistent with the actual situation. It is learnt that Amazon has not yet disclosed specific sales situation, only said that the sales of Kindle is vert good, but have not yet reached the high expectations of analysts.