>>Actually, the distribution model was very efficient - it delivered everywhere, didn't it?
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>But it delivered in one direction.
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>And it only delivered 4 to 200 channels streamed on a schedule, instead of billions of websites with content waiting for you.
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>The interactivity and pure scope of the new model is what sets it apart.
And the efficiency of being able to target highly specialized markets. There may be only 100,000 people in the world who would subscribe to a weekly program on rebuilding Harley Davidson engines for 10c a week, but if you can reach them all you have an economically viable reason to do the show. A magazine etc. couldn't survive - not because the market isn't there but because the costs of production and the means of distribution are inherently inefficient.
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