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Article: Amazon to launch digital music store.(PRODUCTS)
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- Screen Digest
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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[On-line][Audio] Amazon, the online retail giant, intends to launch a digital music service before end 2007. The store will offer music from over 12,000 independent labels and one major, EMI, all in MP3 without any DRM. Amazon has yet to detail its launch date or pricing structure.
[??] Amazon's position as an online retailer of physical entertainment products is second to none and this gives company an enviable position from which to launch a digital music store. However, it has so far failed to translate its success at selling physical products into a successful digital content business. Its transition from physical to digital has been tentative: whilst Amazon ...