Amazon #2 Online Music Retailer Behind iTunes

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

(Via Mac Rumors.) USAToday reports that Amazon has managed to take the #2 spot amongst digital music retailers behind iTunes with their MP3 Store. No sales numbers have been released, so it's difficult to gauge exactly how close a competitor Amazon is becoming. This information comes from the four major labels who ...

Amazon Takes On Apple With Copy-Protection-Free Music

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

(Via USA Today.) by Jefferson Graham, USA TodayThe music industry is fianlly comfortable selling digital music without copy protection, but the huge shift hasn't resulted in dramatically higher sales.Instead, it produced something that major music labels have long sought: a strong No. 2 competitor to Apple.

Use Amazon S3 to automatically back up your Mac

Monday, February 11th, 2008

(Via Mac OS X Hints.) Amazon's S3 is an online storage solution; you pay for only what you use ($0.15/GB/month, plus some transfer costs). I wrote a simple step-by-step guide to setting you a Mac to sync with Amazon S3; here's the executive summary version:You need an Amazon Web Services account. ...

News: Sony BMG to offer DRM-free music through Amazon MP3

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

(Via iLounge.) Amazon.com has announced that it will be adding music from Sony BMG to its Amazon MP3 DRM-free music store later this month, which will make it the only service to offer DRM-free tracks from all four major labels. “We are excited to offer Amazon MP3 customers DRM-free MP3s from ...

Why iTunes Is In Jeopardy

Friday, December 28th, 2007

(Via myapplemenu.) by Don Reisinger, CNET News.comAs Amazon's service grows and people realize they can do much more with those songs than iTunes', how long will it be before Amazon becomes the downloading service of choice?I doubt it; so long iPod maintains its lead, the iTunes Store is going to be ...