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Amazon Now Selling MP3s!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I'm not sure if this is new, but it's the first I heard of it. I got an email from Amazon this morning announcing that they're now selling MP3s!

Amazon MP3 offers Earth's biggest selection of a la carte, DRM-free MP3 music downloads. With over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels, Amazon MP3 complements Amazon.com's existing selection of over 1 million CDs to offer customers more selection of physical and digital music than any other retailer.

Every song and album on Amazon MP3 is available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software. This means that Amazon MP3 customers are free to enjoy their music downloads using any hardware device, organize their music using any music management application, and burn songs to CDs.

Most songs are priced from 89 cents to 99 cents, with more than 1 million of the 2 million songs priced at 89 cents. The top 100 best-selling songs are 89 cents, unless marked otherwise. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99. The top 100 best-selling albums are $8.99 or less, unless marked otherwise.

Every song on Amazon MP3 is encoded at 256 kilobits per second, which gives customers high audio quality at a manageable file size.

Sounds pretty sweet. I'll add a link on the deals page so everyone has quick access to cheap, DRM-free music!

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Yep, they started this a couple weeks back. And it appears to have resulted in a quick response from the Apple iTunes Store. This week Apple expanded their selection of non-DRM 256 kbps iTunes Plus selections and dropped the price 30 cents, to $0.99 (same as normal DRM songs).

 

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