Jan 30 2008
Amazon to rollout MP3 store to the rest of the world
In a move which is by the far the most credible threat to Apple’s dominance of the online music scene, Amazon will start rolling out it’s online music store to countries outside of the USA over the course of 2008.
From the press release:
Amazon to Begin International Rollout of Amazon MP3 in 2008
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 27, 2008–Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that in 2008 the company will begin an international rollout of Amazon MP3, Amazon’s DRM-free MP3 digital music store where every song is playable on virtually any digital music-capable device, including the PC, Mac(R), iPod(R), Zune(R), Zen(R), iPhone(TM), RAZR(TM), and BlackBerry(R). Amazon MP3 is the only retailer to offer customers DRM-free MP3s from all four major music labels as well as over 33,000 independent labels.
The music tracks available for download are unencrypted MP3 files encoded at 256kbps and work on all MP3 players. This is big news and I can’t wait for the service to arrive in NZ.