Amazon Video On Demand is offered by Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
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Kindle devices are sold through Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
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In response, companies like Amazon and PayPal cut off their digital services to Wikileaks, prompting outrage from supporters of that organization and consternation from those of us worried about the reliance on private companies for public information.
Suddenly it became clear why Amazon has invested so much into building digital services.
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Subsequently, Amazon developed a broader infrastructure for any type of digital properties, not just e-commerce, called Amazon Web Services.
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He thinks margins will stabilize in the 2012 second half and trend higher in 2013, driven by gross margin upside driven by digital, third-party sales and Amazon Web Services revenue, and from fulfillment productivity gains due to recently opened fulfillment centers.
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Eric Best, a former Amazon executive, is chairman and CEO of Mercent, a provider of digital marketing services.
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Amazon.com recently unveiled its Cloud Drive services that allow people to store digital music and access them from computers or Android devices.
Between web services, hosting and storage, Amazon is becoming the backbone for digital properties from startups to established companies such as Dropbox.
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And, of course, that same audience needs other content, goods and services, and even in-experience digital items, all of which Amazon can sell to it.
However, Amazon expects to generate increasing amounts of revenue by selling digital content to the Kindle users and through advertising services like these.
As an example, revenue generated by Amazon Services sales represent 3P seller fees earned (including commissions) and related shipping fees, digital content subscriptions, and non-retail activities.
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Google became the latest company to announce cloud-based movie and music services this week, joining online retailer Amazon.com in the market for web-based digital content.
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