Studios is Amazon.com's division that develops comics, movies and television shows from online submissions and crowd-sourced feedback.It was started in late 2010. Content would be distributed through Amazon Instant Video, Amazon’s digital video streaming service, and a competitor to services like Netflix and Hulu. For film, Warner Bros. is a partner.

 

Film and television

Scripts for television and film are submitted through the web.They are reviewed and rated by other readers in a crowd-source fashion, and/or by Amazon staff.Scripts may be submitted with the option to allow other people to modify them.In addition there is a separate submission method for professional writers (Writers Guild of America members) with separate rules.

 

Amazon has 45 days to choose a submitted script. If a project is chosen for development the writer receives $10,000.It a developed script is selected for distribution as a full-budget series, the creator gets $55,000 as well as "up to 5 percent of Amazon’s net receipts from toy and t-shirt licensing, and other royalties and bonuses." 

 

As of September 2012, Amazon Studios had received more than 10,000 feature screenplay submissions and 1,800 television pilots. 17 films and nine television series were in active development but none had reached the production stage.

 

Comics

Amazon Studio's first comic was Blackburn Burrow released in 2012 as a free download. It contained a survey allowing Amazon to collect feedback to determine if it was worthwhile to make the comic into a film.The survey was incentivized with a gift certificate.