Tag: AMAZONMP3

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iTunes_top_tracks_1_29_Amazon_0_99_thanks_record_labels'; As promised, variable pricing has now been implemented at the iTunes music store. Already, we're seeing most of top 10 singles and 33 of the top 100 hitting the top price-point of $1.29 (encoded as DRM-free 256kbps AAC). Interesting as Amazon's uncomfortably similar top 10 list has all these ...

We're big fans of Amazon's amazonmp3; the online superstore's music download service offers DRM-free digital music downloads at prices that are usually at least $.10 per track cheaper than the main competition, Apple's iTunes. Amazon also offers video on demand (or VOD) services for movies and television episodes, but now the service looks ready to expand to high definition offerings sometime in ...

If you purchased and downloaded your first digital album this year, then congratulations, you're not alone! Demand for legal music downloads increased an impressive 29-percent last quarter over the same quarter in 2007. Interestingly, while illegal downloads of music also increased over the same period, they rose only 23 percent. This means that more and more people are turning to legal ...

It was just a week ago that MySpace re-launched its Music service in partnership with Amazon, enabling any of the site's millions of users to stream the full albums of thousands of artists. Now, MySpace is calling that re-launch a success, saying that a massive billion songs have been streamed since the launch, and that it's still counting. The re-launch expands greatly on the previous service ...

Amazon is looking to blunt Apple's iTunes-exclusive marketing blitz surrounding Coldplay's new album 'Viva la Vida.' Despite Apple's claims of exclusivity, 'Viva la Vida' is the number one selling album on the Amazon MP3 store. Amazon's plan of action is to greatly undercut Apple on prices. Coldplay's new album is a full dollar cheaper at Amazon ($8.99) than on iTunes, but the really dirt cheap ...

For many, the name Napster still evokes memories of the carefree early days of music downloading, when songs were free and illegal, but nobody seemed to mind. Those days, of course, didn't last long, with the service being effectively shut down by pressure from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was later re-launched as a legal download service, but never quite regained the ...

We continue to be impressed at how quickly Amazon's amazonmp3 store has come in just a few months. What was a plucky little start-up recently became the first digital music vendor to offer copy protection-free tunes from all the major music labels, all in a format playable on nearly any digital music player in the world. The only thing holding it back it was geography, but that's set to change ...