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March 27, 2008

UPDATE: eMusic CEO questions USA Today's Amazon digital sales stats...

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bq,, This morning I read with some surprise in USA Today that Amazon is “No. 2 in digital [music] sales since opening nearly six months ago.” Amazon’s entry into this market last year was an important milestone in the continuing irrelevance of DRM and the overly restrictive and anti-consumer policies that the music industry has foolishly wielded in this new, digital age. But let’s get one thing straight: outside of iTunes, no one sells more music digitally than eMusic, and we don’t plan on giving up that title anytime soon.

So how is it, we wondered, that USA Today came to name Amazon No. 2? After talking to USA Today, we learned that:

1) USA Today called representatives of the four major labels, who declared Amazon to be only behind iTunes in sales.

2) USA Today believed that our subscription model was not relevant to the story they wanted to tell.


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