Amazon has unveiled their long awaited music store called
Amazon MP3. It’s very similar to other digital music store, except for the fact that Amazon MP3 is the one of the first major store to sells DRM-free music. The service currently offers over 2 million DRM-free MP3s encoded at 256Kbps for as little as $0.89 or $0.99. Out of the entire 2 million songs, nearly half of the songs sell for $0.89. Albums go for $10, but some are available for as cheap as $6. Of course, DRM-free means there is no copy protection. In other words, users will be able to play the song on any device of their choice, or even burn the songs to CDs
When purchasing songs, you’ll have to use Amazon’s MP3 downloader application to download and automatically push those songs to your iTunes of Windows Media Player Library.
Amazon MP3 is currently in its public beta, and anybody with an Amazon Account can start purchasing music from their store. The pricing doesn’t equate well with iTunes Plus service, where DRM-free music sells for $1.29. Looks like Apple has a real reason to worry, or maybe drop their pricing. Let’s hope that Amazon MP3 runs successfully and gives some strong competition to iTunes. Competition is always favorable to the consumers.
Source: Engadget
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