Second only to iTunes, eMusic has carved a significant niche in the scattered download marketplace with a subscription service offering plans starting at 30 tracks per month for $9.99. But how will Amazon’s new mp3 store effect eMusic; and how will labels who will be getting higher payouts from Amazon react?
Amazon Makes It Tough To Log Off
Amazon.com is receiving some criticism for making it even more difficult for users to log off of its system.
Reactions to Amazon MP3 Store
Our news story and analysis "What The Amazon Store Is…And Is Not" got so many links and hits that we thought we’d take a look across the web to see what other’s thought of the opening of Amazon’s MP3 Download Store.
What The Amazon Download Store Is and Isn’t
You can find our in depth first look at the new Amazon DRM free download store here. But just how "industry changing" is it?
Amazon Challenges iTunes
Amazon.com has launched a public beta of "Amazon MP3," a new digital download store with DRM free music.
Amazon Flexes Payments Service Beta
This latest addition to an infrastructure lineup of S3 and EC2 (data storage/transfer and distributed computing, respectively) enhances Amazon’s strength as a powerful destination for developers.
Google Directs Traffic To Amazon UK
Amazon UK is a giant in its own right, but it turns out that the retailer owes a good portion of its traffic (around 25 percent) to Google. And with one good deed deserving another, Amazon sends around ten percent of its visitors straight back to the search engine.
Amazon Partners With National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration has entered into an agreement with Amazon.com’s CustomFlix Labs to make historic films from the National Archives available for purchase on Amazon.
Despite Insensitivity, PS3 Amazon Sales Soar
Recent Sony news presents an interesting case study in the difference between advertising and marketing. For just as the company was marginalizing yet another group of people and offending the politically correct, sales of PlayStation 3 soar upon price cuts.
Amazon Buys Brilliance Audio
Online retailer Amazon.com has purchased Brilliance Audio, the largest independent publisher of audiobooks in the U.S.
Amazon says the acquisition will expand the number of books produced in the audio format giving customers a broader selection of audiobooks.
Amazon subsidiary CustomFlix now supports both standard CD and MP3-CD audiobook formats through its Disc on Demand service.