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Amazon takes MP3 store global
Amazon has announced plans to take its Amazon MP3 store global sometime in 2008. No word on whether that means February or December, but we'll keep you posted.Amazon currently offers DRM-free MP3 tracks from all four major music labels, something no other digital music store can boast. That's 3.3 million songs from over 270,000 artists. But if you live outside of the US, good luck actually purchasing any of that music.
Apple's iTunes Store is already open in several countries. But Apple charges a bit more for most songs than Amazon and doesn't have nearly as many DRM-free tracks available.
[via Techmeme]
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Bob said 12:01PM on 1-27-2008
If anyone's curious, it's likely the first countries to get this will be Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, China, and Japan. See here for details:
http://www.techconsumer.com/2008/01/27/amazon-mp3-expanding-internationally-more-drm-free-in-2008/
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John Reese said 11:28PM on 1-28-2008
Why bother? There's already better, free, global music download services than these US-centric only services. One such gem I found is FindTheTunes.com ( http://www.findthetunes.com ).
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d-pi said 11:23PM on 3-10-2008
what really sucks about this promotion, is that a large majority of the songs on Amazon are NOT part of the Pepsi promotion...it seems all they offer are what is part of the billboard charts and the crap that clear channel owned radio stations play...try getting something off the beaten path, like Sam Baker, and its no go...well I say GO TO HELL AMAZON.
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