Online retail giant Amazon has launched a UK music download service. Amazon
will sell tracks from its new Amazon MP3 online store for 59p per single track and from £3 for a whole album. Amazon MP3 will store
more than 3 million songs that will work on any mp3 player, including the iPod.
This move by Amazon means that they are now a
direct competitor with Apple in the ever growing market of online music sales, which in Britain alone was worth an estimated £163m in
2007 and today stands at a far greater number.
Unlike songs downloaded from Apple’s i-tunes store, the music available from
Amazon will be free from the constraints of digital rights management.
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