According to Marshall Kirkpatrick of techcrunch.com

Amazon disclosed this weekend that they would be entering the video download space in mid August. AdAge reported on Saturday that Amazon Digital Video will be a subscription service operating through a desktop client. The company has already cried uncle on music downloads and will focus instead on video, a milieu it believes is still free of domination by a single vendor. ABC/Disney appears to be outside the new project, partnering instead with iTunes. The Amazon service will apparently offer both TV episodes and movies, both download to own and rentals may be included.

Amazon already has a variety of film related properties online, it owns the Internet Movie Database and offers a Netflix style DVD rental service in the UK and Germany, for example. ..

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