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Amazon Enters The MP3 Market

By EAN ⋅ September 26, 2007 ⋅  Email this Post ⋅  Print this Post ⋅ Post a Comment

And iTunes Needs to Watch Out

Amazon.com, one of the largest online retailers in the world, has decided to enter a whole new arena - digital music sales. According to the press release from yesterday, Amazon is offering a huge selection of mp3s, over 2 million strong, from a massive variety of artists. Sounds like iTunes, right? Until you get to the price. About half of the current selection is priced at ten cents less than what iTunes is offering. That’s $0.89 per song for a pretty large amount of tunes. The most popular songs on Amazon’s new service will be priced competitively with iTunes at $0.99.

But there is one more big difference between Amazon and the reigning king of online music sales. Amazon’s mp3 collection is completely devoid of consumer inhibiting DRM (digital rights management). Now that’s the kind of online music store I’m talking about. Finally, a store realizes that giving customers freedom over what they purchase is the best way to attract more customers. I certainly know which service I’ll be using the next time I buy a song or two online.

Click here to read the original press release.

Click here to visit the Amazon MP3 Store.