Ahead of its MySpace link-up and 7Digital sarcastic war of word, Amazon UK has now decided to uncover its MP3 music store next month.
A report in New Media Age tells that the online electronics retailer will start its music service in October. It’s, indeed, quite delightful for music labels who consider that Apple’s iTunes service has a monopoly on web music downloads.
On yesterday, 7 digital announced that it has become the first online store in the UK to offer 100% MP3 tracks for UK audience. In a statement, 7digital’s CEO said that he was happy about Amazon joining of the music download brigade as it would help to open up the MP3 market.
“Now people will definitely have more to decide on instead of 800 pound Apple’s iTunes gorilla.”
It is interesting to note that NMA also tells that they are under good authority to mention that MySpace Music couldn’t reach the UK by the early next year.
This new ad-funded music service from Amazon would feature free downloads and streamed music tracks from Amazon. Currently, three major music labels can be seen on board while EMI is in the negotiations stage still.
Damien
September 22nd, 2008But have the really mentioned about pricing of mp3 that amazon is going to sell? I am curious will it have any competitive pricing when compared to itunes, etc? I hope it is cheap so that at least the music and other audio piracy is curbed at least now.
Senatra
October 01st, 2008Another dedicated store from amazon, hopes its not only for Us people.The prices of the items from amazon are usually competitive.Will see the kind of service the Amazon is able to provide in mp3 sector.But Amazon would have to take serious measures to tackle piracy as online distribution of mp3 can spread piracy faster than offline distribution.