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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. Re:The Coolness Factor... by EraserMouseMan · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's BS. It's funny that most mac zealots like to be overcharged. They always justify it by claiming the "cool factor". Music is Music. If people can get a better deal from somewhere else they will. When you hear the music playing it's not like you can tell where it was purchased from anyways.