According to the Wall Street
Journal, Amazon is "in advanced talks with the four global music companies about a digital-music service"
that
would compete
with Apple's iTunes Music Store. Amazon seeks to differentiate itself from the other services chiefly by offering a
subscription service that would come with a preloaded, deply-discounted, Amazon-branded portable music player. Amazon's
likely partner for a digital music player is Samsung and the WSJ speculates that a subscription fee in the neighbor
hood of $15/mo. is likely. Amazon has also said that subscribers could get discounts on CD purchases. There's no word
on whether the service would be compatible with iPods, but my guess is no. However, I think there's a chance they'll
see some success with their mobile-phone-like plan of offering discounted players with a subscription.
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Subscribe to commentsjaime alemanFeb 16th 2006 2:18PM
i think this is a great step forward for ANY mp3 fan.
it's not so great that the #1 way of listening to music be an iPod.
we need variety. we need/crave a competitive market to choose from.
i work for COSTCO Wholesale, and we are always sold of them little gizmos. TRUE, they are neat and wonderful little gadgets, but i dont really think that iPod will make it on its own.