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USAToday reports that Amazon has managed to take the #2 spot amongst digital music retailers behind iTunes with their MP3 Store. No sales numbers have been released, so it’s difficult to gauge exactly how close a competitor Amazon is becoming.
This information comes from the four major labels who played their part in making it so. Amazon has been provided access to a larger number of unprotected music from the major labels to stock their MP3 Store.
(Via USA Today.)
by Jefferson Graham, USA Today
The music industry is fianlly comfortable selling digital music without copy protection, but the huge shift hasn’t resulted in dramatically higher sales.
Instead, it produced something that major music labels have long sought: a strong No. 2 competitor to Apple.
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Amazon’s S3 is an online storage solution; you pay for only what you use ($0.15/GB/month, plus some transfer costs). I wrote a simple step-by-step guide to setting you a Mac to sync with Amazon S3; here’s the executive summary version:
- You need an Amazon Web Services account. Once signed up, you’ll need your Amazon access key and your secret key. These are what s3sync will use to authenticate you to Amazon.
- You’ll need this zip file (1.2MB), which contains all the files you are going to need.
- You need to create a “bucket” at Amazon to store your files. To create the bucket, you need of the S3 GUI applications that exist. I have included in the zip file the one I have used called S3 …
(Via iLounge.)
Amazon.com has announced that it will be adding music from Sony BMG to its Amazon MP3 DRM-free music store later this month, which will make it the only service to offer DRM-free tracks from all four major labels. “We are excited to offer Amazon MP3 customers DRM-free MP3s from SONY BMG, which represents many of the most popular musicians from the past and present,” said Bill Carr, Amazon.com Vice President for Digital Music. “Our Amazon MP3…
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by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
As Amazon’s service grows and people realize they can do much more with those songs than iTunes’, how long will it be before Amazon becomes the downloading service of choice?
I doubt it; so long iPod maintains its lead, the iTunes Store is going to be a significant player.
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