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Amazon’s Fire TV Cube Makes Its Debut

Another industry insider, Parks Associates’ Brett Sappington, said during the Pay TV Show last month in Denver that Amazon is the only company to get à la carte TV right and that the company could simply begin offering full pay-TV subscriptions as part of its Prime memberships.

Sappington added that Amazon could afford to give away local broadcast and cable channels for free if it can figure out how to effectively tie its retail offering to that proposition. "Fundamentally, Amazon sees itself as a retailer," Sappington said. 

From the article "Amazon’s Fire TV Cube Makes Its Debut" by Doug McPherson.

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