Amazon To Fight iTunes, Globally.
01.29.08 - 05:21pm
Fresh off the victory of signing all four major music labels allowing their music to be sold DRM free online, Amazon has announced they will be going global with Amazon MP3.
“We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around the world asking us when we will make Amazon MP3 available outside of the U.S.,” Bill Carr, Amazon’s vice president of digital music, said in a statement. “We are excited to tell those customers today that Amazon MP3 is going international this year.”
No details were released on when the site will begin launching in other countries, but the news brings Amazon MP3 one step closer to outright competition in market share with Apple iTunes. Amazon’s songs are priced for less than Apple’s with most of their songs going for $.89 cents to Apple’s $.99 cents. Also all of Amazons 3.3 million songs are DRM free. iTunes has 6 million songs but only those from EMI are DRM free.
