In case you haven't heard... Amazon.com, the online retailer, is in the content creation space now; actually, they've been at it for a little bit, creating Amazon Studios in 2010, for that purpose. Via its web submission process, since its formation just over 2 years ago, the company's studio has received over 10,000 feature screenplays, and 1,800 television pilots scripts, with as many as 17 films and nine television series in active development as of last fall. On of those projects that's moving into production is a comedy pilot titled Browsers - a musical comedy set in NYC that follows four young people as they begin their first jobs at a news website....
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