I would without a doubt prefer Amazon to own Twitch over Google. Google already owns so much it would be scary. On a brighter note...who thinks that Amazon will include Twitch Turbo as part of Amazon Prime now? Wouldn't that be awesome!!!

Amazon is apparently about to shell out a shade under a billion dollars for Twitch, an interactive, YouTube-meets-ESPN platform for video-game streaming. But if Twitch is revolutionizing the gaming industry while ranking fourth in US peak website traffic behind traffic tycoons Netflix, Google, and Apple, many outside the gaming world had never even heard of it until now. Twitch has created a new breed of internet celebrity: the gamer. It boasts an impressive 55 million unique viewers and 16 billion minutes watched per month, which reportedly ends up offering some of their most popular personalities an opportunity to make upward of $100,000 a year on streaming alone. Twitch bridges the gap between viewer and personality by giving users an opportunity to chat with the streamer instantaneously, an accessibility that promotes a unique intimacy. While the word has yet to spread throughout the mainstream media that video games are no longer the diversion of an underground counterculture, with these stats it's hard to argue that online spectatorship of gaming isn't about to blow up in a major way.

http://www.vice.com/read/twitch-is-turning-gamers-into-internet-celebrities-826

I've been a member of their audible site and bought many audio books), such a selection of audio books you wouldn't believe, absolutely not a chance in hell of finding these on the street. (or anywhere else for that matter). amazon's audible helped produce many of the works i imagine (at least to some extent).

The problem with the current pr*ck who's running the show is he treats anyone who has historically been an ally, as an enemy. All while destabilizing the entire middle east, and in ever single instance... takes the side of the Islamofascist terrorists, all because he despises what the so-called "Colonialist" British and French did with the Sykes-Picot Agreement post WW1. Oh... and trust me. Obama is spying on our allies just as much as he spies on our enemies... as well as American Citizens. I have a feeling that his "reign" will come to an abrupt end if the Republicans take the Senate. Without Harry Reid blocking ALL Republican legislation (over 300 bills since 2012), and protecting the criminal in the white house, congress will be able to regain the power Harry gave away to the Presidency and perhaps we just might see Obama answer for his lawlessness.

And you really think it was all Obama's idea, and they didn't do it before? And the Republicans will change that to the better? You do remember the patriot act being introduced under the Bush administration? Lawlessness, as in electorial fraud? :bang:

I've been a member of their audible site and bought many audio books), such a selection of audio books you wouldn't believe, absolutely not a chance in hell of finding these on the street. (or anywhere else for that matter). amazon's audible helped produce many of the works i imagine (at least to some extent).

Also, they don't publish author's works in paper although there are contracts to do so just to kill analogue, paper work competition. Books already finished, just waiting to be printed, that get released as ebooks for a few cents so the author gets nothing, yet amazon sells millions to make it's money? Amazon doesn't really help with publishing at all, they want access to your intellectual property, no matter what the authors want.