Posts Tagged with ‘amazonmp3’

Only yesterday in a post describing some of the best and worst parts of Apple App Store for and the distribution system Apple built for iPhone content and applications that can be used as lessons by Google for Android, I mentioned that one of the best parts is that iTunes offers a broad range of content where users can go shopping not only when they are determined to buy an application - but even when they look to buy a [...]

You would have thought that companies involved in selling digital media (especially those with DRM content) would have learned a lesson after the fiasco Google went through when the company decided to close its video marketplace. That was last August, when Google abruptly cut off access to the videos that many customers had rightfully purchased or rented. Then, after heavy internet criticism, all customers received an apology and full refunds.
Schizophrenic Microsoft must not have heard about that news story however, [...]

A major tide is shifting in the music industry as the digital age slowly eats away at the number of CD sales in favor of downloadable MP3s. Today, Apple has announced that the sales figures for 2007 are in from the NPD Group, and iTunes has come in as the #2 music retailer, trailing only behind Wal-Mart.
In today's press release, Apple has revealed that more than 50 million people are now using the iTunes store of more than 6 [...]

Amazon today announced that its completely DRM-free catalog of MP3 downloads was expanded through the addition of Sony BMG music, which should be available to consumers by the end of the month.
With all four major music labels now on board, it looks like AmazonMP3 can now be considered a real threat to iTunes and its more limited variety of DRM-free music (over 3 million at AmazonMP3 compared to just 2 million at iTunes). “All four major labels will [...]

Well, it?s happened. Sony BMG announced it is ?finalizing plans to sell songs without copyright protection? sold via the Web.
And here we were just starting to appreciate the resistance the recording giant had thus far erected in the face of inevitable change.
Okay, actually, to be straight with you, no, we didn?t so much as give the company a passing smirk in our own coverage of its stubborn refusal to bend to consumer demand. But let?s shelve the nasty talk [...]

The year is almost through. Eggnog’s running low. The once fresh-cut Douglas-firs placed inside millions of homes over the holidays are running dry and approaching their final demise. Bottles of bubbly are being prepped and placed on standby for the global celebration to happen next week for the new calendar’s arrival.
So I think it’s only fitting to follow convention here and offer up a few wise words in anticipation of suspected things to come in the wide world of Web [...]

Unlike many retail giants of mostly brick-and-mortar, chain-linked proportions headquartered in the US, Amazon has shown a nice finish to 2007. The company, one of the largest of all online retail outlets, displayed a record number of sales this month – 5.4 million for the day of December 10th alone - effectively pushing the marketplace to a 13-year high, reported the London Times yesterday.
And there’s more. The mega-success, in tandem with the Warner Music Group, also revealed earlier this [...]

Everyone knows that Apple has the most successful online music store, with iTunes selling more than 3 billion songs.
Recently Amazon entered the digital music market with AmazonMP3, offering only DRM-free songs at a price more affordable than the $1.29 customers pay for non-DRM tracks on iTunes.
Now, according to Nick O'Neill of AllFacebook, Facebook could be the next company to take on iTunes. While this sounds fishy, as no one has received any previous word of such news, it does seem [...]

Amazon has released a beta of its long-awaited music download service. Does it stack up to the competition? (The competition being iTunes, of course.)
I wish I could say yes. I really do. I wish it were a worthy challenger to the juggernaut that is Apple’s online music store. But alas, it isn’t. By a long shot.
I won’t lie. AmazonMP3 has a number of perks going for it. All downloads from the service are less any DRM-protection, allowing one to [...]