you’re able to always expect that Amazon will push out new Kindles and Fires year by year , but the Everything Store has so much more in the works . From travel sites to retail stores , there ’s a whole bunch of bruit material Bezos & Co. might be getting quick to tramp out . Here ’s a breakdown .
An ad-supported streaming video service
“ Ad - supported and dirt bum ” has always been a fundament of Amazon ’s Kindle ironware strategy , andrumor has itthat same tactic is coming to its Instant Video service . The rumored Amazon cyclosis offering would operate totally independently of the $ 100 - per - yer Amazon Prime , and derive in at a price around $ 8 a calendar month to undercut challenger like Netflix and Hulu .
The Wall Street Journal reportedthat Amazon was consider the possible action in March , and nowthe New York Post cites sourcesthat corroborate it ’s a done deal . It also work perfect sense , give that Amazon ’s already apply this model to ebooks withKindle Unlimited .
A travel site with hotel booking
A report from travel site Skiftsays that Amazon is work with a number of hotel to set in motion its own travel site for hotel booking as ahead of time as January of next year . The plan is on the face of it to start out simple-minded : Hotels in the New York , Los Angeles and Seattle areas would number rooms , availability , pricing , and photo on Amazon ’s novel site , and then plain Amazon 15 percent of every transaction .
And although Amazon Travel would start small , there are apparently plans for ontogeny , including some editorial cognitive content about things to do and see on your Amazon vacation , and the potential for getting into escape engagement and other travel arrangements .
A retail store in New York City
rumor that Amazon would eventually open up some sort of strong-arm store somewhere have been floating around for years , but they ’ve really heated up lately . The Wall Street Journal reportedthat Amazon would open up a retail stock in NYC during the 2014 vacation season . The rumored store would serve one-half as a warehouse — acting as a staging area for same - day bringing in New York City — and half as a traditional variety of retail entrepot , live with in - person returns , and pitch Amazon ’s rise family of atomic number 99 - lecturer , tablets , set - top boxes , talking speaker , and phone .
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Since the initial study , Amazon has ponied up to hire a 470,000 satisfying foot spacein Midtown Manhattan for 17 years . Amazon has so far parry any suggestions that this might be the making of a strong-arm store , claiming this is just power space , and the retail distance on the terra firma storey will be charter out . But sources are still telling the WSJ that the storage warehouse - storefront combo plan is still a go .
Alternate delivery services
Amazon ’s planto enjoyment dronesto deliver packages is anything but a secret . It ’s alsomostly marketingand imprecate unfeasible for the moment . But in the meantime , Amazon is bruit to be explore other equally - eldritch but more realistic solutions for faster shipping . One of these includesusing taxi services to ferry deliveries to customersin San Francisco and Los Angeles . And that ’s on top ofpersistent rumorsthat Amazon is also lay the groundwork for a more traditional delivery service that would compete with UPS and FedEx .
All the obvious stuff
Even though there are n’t any specific rumour yet , there ’s also a whole cluster of other things that Amazon almost for sure has in the body of work . Of course Amazon is mould on a new line of Kindle tocopherol - readers . The Kindle Fire HDX logical argument is about due for a meaningful update . Amazon surely has n’t yield up on the Fire Phone . Amazon ’s Fire TV and Fire Stick are still moderately new , but there ’s a skillful chance they have successors already in planning , not to mention that Amazon still own a game studio apartment that it could still put to a lot more purpose . And Amazon is intelligibly ramp up its cloud game if it ’s offeringunlimited photograph storage to all its Prime members . And let ’s not forget Amazon Echo .
Amazon ’s Prime offerings have been getting better and good and better , but it looks like that ’s only part — if a heavy part — of the once - bookseller ’s plan to take over every part of your world . Only prison term will tell how many of these voicelessness add up reliable , but there ’s somewhat much no question that Amazon has a whole flock of mad theme in the works . It ’s just a matter of which one prove up first .
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