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Review of Amazon's DRM-Less Music Download Store
fdmendez writes to tell us that he had a chance to check out Amazon's DRM-less music download store that was recently released as a beta trial. "Amazon one-ups the iTunes store in every way except for popularity. Never once did I find an album to be more expensive on the Amazon store in comparison to the iTunes store. The download experience was pleasant, and the lack of DRM truly makes it YOUR music. I don't know of any other download service that could top the Amazon MP3 store."
I've been getting my music either free or DRM-free or both from Emusic, Jamendo and Magnatune. I don't see any reason to start paying for mainstream music again.
$8-$9 is too much for an album.
It's like they took the distribution costs of a CD, (which could be estimated at $5-$8,) chopped them off, and are still expecting to make the same profit. Why can't they charge much less and make up the profits on volume?
No, I will not work for your startup
I'm still anchored in my love for tactile product, I'll stick to cd's for now.
"I like what I like, and thats all that matters. It's not like listening to music has some net societal effect that matters, its just something that makes you feel good when listening to it." Absolutely. Everybody has the right to be an self-interested ignoranus. It's just a lot of us don't think it's something to be so proud of.