Making Content Convenient Creates More Value Than Locking It Up

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 06/26/2008 - 19:30

Megan McArdle sings the praises of Amazon's digital media strategy, noting that she can now get her music, movies, TV shows, and books all from one company and have them all neatly organized and made available to her.

Amazon's digital store is convenient because it remembers which content she's purchased and allows her to re-download any of it on demand from anywhere.

That means that she doesn't have to worry too much about preserving individual media files; she just...

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