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March 26, 2008

Amazon's DRM-free MP3 store #2 in digital sales...

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The music industry is finally comfortable selling digital music without copy protection, but the huge shift hasn’t resulted in dramatically higher sales.

Instead, it produced something that major music labels have long sought: a strong No. 2 competitor to Apple.

Amazon’s (AMZN) MP3 store — which sells only songs without copy protection — has quietly become No. 2 in digital sales since opening nearly six months ago, say the four major labels. That’s even though Apple (AAPL) dominates digital music with its iTunes Store (the second-largest music retailer in the world, after Wal-Mart) (WMT) and its hugely popular iPod.


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#1 Isaac N says:

Five words: "say the four major labels." the story has no 3rd party market share stats, nothing. Such a fluffy love note to Amazon... for some balance, read the blog post from the head of eMusic, my top site for MP3s: http://17dots.com/2008/03/26/whos-rea...


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