Amazon Snags Sony for its MP3 Store
22 January 2008Adding another feather to its cap, Amazon.com has gotten Sony BMG,
the last major music label holdout until now, to join its Amazon MP3
DRM-free download service.
Sony BMG will be available on Amazon MP3 later this month.
Amazon now has the distinction of offering DRM-free MP3s from all
four major music labels - Universal Music Group, EMI, Warner Music
and Sony - as well as 33,000 independent labels.
Apple only has one label supporting DRM-free downloads: Sony BMG.
Amazon MP3 lets customers of its DRM-free service play their music
on any digital music device including iPod, Zune, PC, Mac, iPhone,
Zen, RAZR and BlackBerry.
The four-month-old digital music store bills itself as “Earth’s
Biggest Selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 music downloads.”
Amazon MP3 offers some 3.1 million songs from 270,000 artists,
mostly from 89 cents to 99 cents per song.
Albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99.
Every song in the Amazon MP3 store is available only in the MP3
format without digital management software and is encoded at 256
Kbps.
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