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Amazon launches sale of DRM-free MP3s
Merlin Mann | Sep 25 2007
Daring Fireball: The Amazon MP3 Store and Amazon MP3 Downloader
I'm with Gruber -- this is a welcome and fan-friendly addition to the marketplace. And, frankly, I'm glad there's finally somebody out there who can really give Apple some competition in this area. One thing: I'm surprised that MP3 sales links aren't yet mixed into regular CD sales pages. That must certainly be high on their TODO list. Because Amazon's Google juice is strong as hell, and on the day they put "Buy This Track Now" onto a few dozen thousand PR5+ music pages? Well. That may be the day Apple gets to really see what competition in this space looks like. 19 Comments
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 It ain't about the razorsSubmitted by Steve Nagel on September 27, 2007 - 7:44am.
Won't Apple find this just its cup of tea? To use the clique-ed example, what if Gillette found it could sell even more, very profitable razors and not have to sell the blades that make no profit? And could the timing be better? Apple builds the market, accrues the cash to take on the cellphone biz, and—just in the week when the music moguls are getting around to demanding a share of its iPod revenue—the whole music market goes DRM-free, which means the music industry has just lost any claims that it might have on iPod profts. No? » POSTED IN:
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