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Prime Instant Video First: Amazon Announces Digital Video License
Agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Bringing
Acclaimed TV Shows Exclusively to Kindle Fire and Prime Customers
New licensing agreement brings Emmy award winning, The West Wing and
fan favorite, Fringe to Prime Instant Video, along with other popular TV
shows
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN) –
Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a licensing agreement with Warner Bros.
Domestic Television Distribution to add popular TV shows, including
Fringe and The West Wing to the Prime Instant Video catalog. Millions of
customers are already enjoying more than 18,000 Prime Instant Videos on
Kindle Fire and hundreds of other compatible devices, and this
agreement adds a variety of fan-favorite TV shows including Dark Blue,
Alcatraz, and The Whole Truth.
Both Fringe and The West Wing
will be available exclusively on Prime Instant Video for the summer,
giving Prime members and Kindle Fire customers exclusive access to
favorite titles that have been previously unavailable. Prime Instant
Video includes more than 18,000 movies and TV episodes available for
Prime members to instantly stream and enjoy at no additional cost. To
start watching Prime Instant Video now, visit www.amazon.com/PIV.
Customers who are not Prime members can enjoy a free one month trial of
Prime and all Kindle Fire customers enjoy a free month of Prime right
out of the box.
"Since launching Prime Instant Video, we've
continued to expand both the quantity and quality of video content for
our Prime members," said Brad Beale, director of digital video content
acquisition for Amazon. "Bringing Fringe and The West Wing – two shows
with a devoted fan base – to Prime Instant Video first, is another way
for us to add value for Prime members and to continue to give customers
content they love."
"We are thrilled to count Amazon as a
digital distribution outlet for our television group," said Ken Werner,
President, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. "As more and
more television content is enjoyed by fans across a myriad of
subscription channels and platforms and on numerous devices from
televisions to tablets, deals such as this give consumers the
opportunity to discover, catch-up, or simply enjoy a favorite series
again and again."
Prime customers can access Prime
Instant Video on Kindle Fire or any of the hundreds of compatible
Amazon Instant Video devices, including the Roku, Xbox 360 and
PlayStation 3 gaming console. For a list of compatible Amazon Instant
Video devices visit here.
About Amazon Instant Video
Amazon Instant Video is a digital video streaming and download
service that offers Amazon customers the ability to rent, purchase or
subscribe to a huge catalog of videos. Customers can choose from more
than 120,000 titles to purchase or rent and content ranges from new
release movies to classic favorites, major television shows, entire
seasons, or even day after air TV. Prime Instant Video is Amazon's video
subscription offer-it includes more than 18,000 movies and TV episodes
selected from the full assortment available at Amazon Instant Video.
This subscription offer allows US Prime customers to stream as many
Prime Instant Videos as they like, at no additional cost.
About Prime
Amazon Prime is an annual membership program for $79 a year that
offers customers unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items
including books, home and garden products, electronics, video games,
clothing, and much more. Amazon Prime members also get access to
unlimited instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes and
access to tens of thousands of books to borrow for free, as frequently
as a book a month, with no due dates from a Kindle device. Customers who
receive free Prime shipping benefits through our Amazon Student or
Amazon Mom programs can upgrade to an annual paid membership to receive
Amazon Prime's digital benefits.
About Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution:
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) is one of the
leading suppliers of entertainment programming to the domestic
television marketplace, distributing first-run syndicated series,
off-network television programs and theatrical motion pictures to local
broadcast television stations, as well as to pay, cable, satellite,
broadcast networks and digital platforms throughout the U.S. WBDTD
handles the domestic distribution of television series produced by
Warner Bros. Television, Telepictures Productions, Warner Bros.
Animation and Warner Horizon Television; selected HBO Independent
Productions and the Lorimar Television library; current feature films
from Warner Bros. Pictures; and the Studio's unmatched motion picture
library.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com,
Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on
the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest
Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric
company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want
to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible
prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new,
refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music
& Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home &
Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry;
Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto &
Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers
with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's
own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable
virtually any type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the
lightest, most compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most
advanced electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in
bright sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family
with an easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn
pages, search, shop, and take notes – still with all the benefits of the
most advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the
line e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle
Touch, with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire
is the Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games
and web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon
Cloud, Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon's new revolutionary
cloud-accelerated web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful
dual-core processor.
Amazon and its affiliates
operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk,
www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca,
www.amazon.cn, www.amazon.it, and www.amazon.es. As used herein,
"Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc.,
and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ
significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others,
risks related to competition, management of growth, new products,
services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results,
international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims,
fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements,
acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system
interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments
and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect
Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual
Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
