Peter Kafka

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Q: How Does IMDB Follow Up a Hit App? A: With a Trivia App.

IMDB’s first mobile effort was a hit — the company says that 15 million Apple iOS users and 10 million Google Android users have downloaded the app since 2009. So here’s the next effort from Amazon’s movie database site: A trivia game. IMDB says 25 million users access the service from phones each month, either via apps or its mobile site.

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work