My friend is a huge
All My Children fan and was excited to hear that her canceled show would have new life online. When I hear stories like that or the one below, I wonder how it will affect our society. Not just from a business/consumer aspect, but rather how we as a society interact. It used to be that you'd talk with your friends or co-workers about how its Grey's night, and you knew that you'd all be watching Grey's Anatomy together and then you'd all be talking about it the next day. So I've seen videos go viral, and I've talked with friends about the laughing cat or exploding Coke bottle, but it wasn't a shared experience the way that TV has been. So will that make it more difficult or easier to get people to tune in? I wonder.
YouTube has been striking deals with several content providers (such as Warner Bros., BermanBraun, FremantleMedia and Shine Group) to add about two dozen channels offering original shows, with TV-style entertainment and news, saysHollywood Reporter. Sources indicated Google would spend as much as $150 million on the effort. Meanwhile, Amazon is signing up new authors, bypassing book publishers and agents, says The New York Times. Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in both physical and e-book form, and has signed its first deal with the self-help author Tim Ferriss. 
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