Netflix CEO Apologizes, Introduces Qwikster in Customer Email

If you’re a Netflix customer, your inbox this morning contained an email from Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, that opens with, “I messed up. I owe you an explanation.”

With that, Hastings discusses the need for Netflix to move into streaming, his business fears, and the differing cost structures for a DVD business and a movie streaming business that made the cost increases that angered customers necessary. He also introduces “Qwikster,” the new DVD service that will have its own website

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