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Amazon Plans Music Service To Rival iPod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bringing-the-star-destroyers-around-for-a-broadside dept.

theodp writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is in advanced talks with the four global music companies about a digital-music service that could be launched as soon as this summer. It would feature Amazon-branded portable music players, designed and built for the retailer, and a subscription service that would deeply discount and preload those devices with songs."

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  1. possible name... by solidtransient · · Score: 5, Funny

    call it iMazon... no wait...

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  2. New headline... by jav1231 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Amazon looking to dump tons of cash on HUGE tax write-off!"

  3. Duh... it'll be... by bennomatic · · Score: 3, Funny
    aTunes!

    And the hardware will be called the aPod!

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