Wowie Zowie, Amazon!
The ever adept Mac and technology blogger, John Gruber, has published an article titled The Amazon MP3 Store and Amazon MP3 Downloader. In the article, he gives the store and the software a complete, thorough review but the short and sweet of it is that Amazon has just unveiled their new Amazon MP3 store.
The store (url: www.amazonmp3.com/), has over 2 million songs in its library and has a selection of 180,000 artists and over 20,000 labels. Most individual songs are priced between 89 and 99 cents. Entire albums are marked between $5.99 and $9.99.
None of this is really noteworthy. Apple’s iTunes has more artists, labels, and songs and is priced similarly. The standout feature of Amazon’s store is the fact that ALL of their songs are completely DRM free without an additional cost. That’s right, no DRM whatsoever. Use it on any device you want, anytime.
This could be the first real contender that iTunes has ever seen.
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