Amazon: Alles aus einer Hand mit Kindle Fire, X-Ray, IMDB und Instant Video

The Next Web über eine Anekdote in Amazons Weg hin zur allumfassenden Plattform:

Amazon has expanded its X-Ray for movies feature, which enables Kindle users to tap on an actor or actress and discover which films they’ve starred in, by adding support for TV shows today.

The service, which uses the popular IMDB database, now supports some of the most popular shows available on Amazon Instant Video; Justified, Downton Abbey, The West Wing, Sons of Anarchy, Falling Skies, American Horror Story, Grey’s Anatomy, Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Lost, Glee, Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.

The feature is exclusive to the Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD and Amazon Instant Video app for Wii U. It follows an iOS version of X-Ray for Books, a similar feature focused on novels and textbooks, that was launched in December last year.

Schaut man sich das langsam entstehende Gesamtbild an, erscheint die Frage, die sich mancher beim ersten Kindle Fire noch gestellt hat, ‚Was will ein Online-Händler mit einem eigenen Tablet?‘, geradezu naiv.