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The Motley Fool
August 31, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon.com Cranks Up the Music Amazon, the country's leading online retailer, will launch its eagerly anticipated MP3 store in three weeks. The company will be selling songs in the MP3 format, free of digital rights management. Will it take a bite out of Apple?   |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner Warms to Amazon Warner Music Group becomes the latest big studio to sell DRM-free tunes through Amazon.com. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon 2, Apple 0 Amazon's new MP3 store aims for Apple's jugular. Anyone who believes that Apple will maintain its gargantuan share of the digital-music world in a year or two has been resting on the mute button for too long. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Sony BMG Opens DRM-Free Content to Amazon Sony BMG's move gives Amazon a new boost in its quest to upend iTunes, but where do the record labels' priorities' really lie? |
The Motley Fool
April 16, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Amazon Taking a Bite Out of Apple? Amazon is making headway in digital music, but it will be a long time before Apple needs to worry. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2007 |
Amazon Adds Warner Music to MP3 Downloads Amazon.com has signed on Warner Music Group to its music download service, which aims to compete with Apple's industry-dominating iTunes online store. |
InternetNews
January 28, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon Taking Its MP3 Store Global Beginning later this year, Amazon plans to roll out international versions of its DRM-free music store. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Watch Your Back, Mr. Mac PepsiCo will be giving away 1 billion MP3 downloads through Amazon.com. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Amazon. iTunes. Yawn. Amazon.com begins selling MP3 songs for $.89 each, a strategy that probably won't hurt iTunes, and may even indirectly benefit Apple. |
InternetNews
September 25, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Amazon Now Hawks MP3s, Targeting iPod Crowd Amazon's new MP3 music store features what the company characteristically calls "Earth's biggest selection" - over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists, represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels. |
InternetNews
January 15, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon, Pepsi Team For Super Bowl MP3 Giveaway Pepsi-Cola and Amazon have teamed up in a promotion to give away as many as 1 billion songs from Amazon MP3. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Kills Another One Wal-Mart is reportedly nixing its digital-music store. |
The Motley Fool
October 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Drops the Digital-Music Shackles Apple lowers the price of its unrestricted song files. If a customer can buy a DRM-protected track on iTunes at $0.99 a pop, or pick up a DRM-free version at a sonically superior bitrate, it's an easy choice. |
The Motley Fool
July 10, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Downloads: Music to Labels' Ears The music industry's complaints about dire downloading doom are largely unfounded. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Why'd You Do It, Amazon? Amazon.com matches Apple's music price increase, unfortunately. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Is Ready to Rock Amazon taps the vein of music appreciation with a stake in a music discovery site. Despite Amazon's girth in all things e-commerce, it will be a challenging venture. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's Five-Finger Discount Albums are getting cheaper on iTunes if you bought a single. |
InternetNews
December 3, 2007 |
Pressure Mounts on Record Labels to Offer MP3s New promotions, successful tests and retailer demands could spell the end of DRM-protected music. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's 30% Mistake Record labels say some iTunes tracks will cost $1.29 next month. |
Home Theater
August 17, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
$3.99 Download Makes Arcade Fire #1 Amazon discount propels band to Billboard's top spot. Many consumers will buy downloads if the price is right. |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Apple Being Drowned Out? Google or Amazon aren't going to overtake Apple in digital music anytime soon. However, as digital rights crater and variable pricing prompts comparison shopping, the iTunes ecosystem may not be as solid as it used to be. |
The Motley Fool
September 4, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Can Apple Save the Music Industry, Again? Interactive digital albums may give new hope to the dying record industry. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
How Do You Like Those Apples, Sam? When it comes to music, Apple has now done the unthinkable: It has passed Wal-Mart. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Rocks, As Usual Apple's iTunes is still the top dog in music sales. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Takes a Bite The digital revolution is knocking. Amazon will be rolling out a self-branded media player, along with a music subscription service. Apple will eventually need to muster a response. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Rock On, Amazon Amazon has made it official, announcing that it will launch a digital music service later this year. Unlike most existing storefronts that sell format-protected tunes, Amazon's tracks will be pure MP3 files. |
InternetNews
February 27, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
iTunes Grabs No. 2 Spot in Overall Music Sales New market analysis from the NPD Group highlights just how far CDs have fallen. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
New Life for Music? U.S. album sales rise for the first time since 2004, but don't start to party like it's 1999 just yet. |
InternetNews
May 16, 2007
Erin Joyce |
Amazon To Sell DRM-Free Music Amazon.com turned up the buzz meter in the digital music world today with news it plans to launch an MP3 digital music store without digital rights management restrictions on the songs. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Amazon Gets Into World Music Music sales as we know them take another step toward obsolescence, as Amazon.com starts to expand its digital music store to international markets. |
The Motley Fool
December 10, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Music Industry 2.0 How to invest in what looks like a deeply troubled music sector. Hint: Think outside the CD case. |
The Motley Fool
January 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bobbing for Apple Is there room for Apple to charge more for tracks? Probably, but does Universal want to be the one to open up that Pandora's Box? |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Apple Boring? No, Brilliant! Many reporters say Apple failed to wow at its final Macworld Expo, but this analyst passionately disagrees. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lady Gaga Kills Amazon.com Amazon.com has a killer music promotion that fights back. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Is Amazon.com the Next Apple? Amazon excels at the digital and physical sides of the new music-industry equation. |
BusinessWeek
September 17, 2007
Scott Kirsner |
Amazon Does Downloads, Sort Of Why Amazon's push into digital delivery of books, movies, and music seems halfhearted. |
InternetNews
May 23, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Amazon Makes Audiobook Noise Amazon acquires audiobook publisher Brilliance Audio to complement subsidiary CustomFlix offerings. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Before You Bite Into That Apple ... Investors, no one is building a better mousetrap than Apple, but a DRM-free world will be loaded with cheaper knock-off mousetraps. With the world's largest retailer and the country's most popular e-tailer nibbling on the cheese, something's going to snap. |
The Motley Fool
September 5, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon 1, Apple 0 Apple's loss of NBC shows will clearly be Amazon's gain. Just days after Apple announced that it won't carry new NBC shows for the upcoming primetime season, NBC's programs are already springing up on Amazon.com's fledgling Unbox service. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Won't Unplug iTunes Unchanged royalty rates keep the virtual doors of Apple's music store open. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Radiohead's Sonic Boom Radiohead will allow its fans to pay whatever they like for its newest album, available on the Web, giving fans the opportunity to cut out the middleman and deal directly with their favorite bands. Is this the future of music? |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
No Label, No Problem With MySpace having a CD out in stores, and more to come, how many more bands do you think are likely to make the service their musical mainstay and staple their amps to a virtual MySpace subdomain? Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Throw This Stock Away Warner Music Group is part of an archaic industry that has been suffering in recent years. Is it time to get rid of this stock? |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004
Larry Armstrong |
E-Tune Shopping With downloading now legit, online music stores have similar catalogs. It's the extras that set them apart. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Amazon Gives Away a Billion Following the success of a 2004 team-up with Apple in which the pair gave away 100 million songs in 60 days, PepsiCo has inked a deal with Amazon to give away 1 billion songs. |
The Motley Fool
August 21, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's Unlimited Appeal Apple's iTunes may be ready to roll out a subscription model. |
BusinessWeek
December 19, 2005
Peter Burrows |
Apple May Be Holding Back The Music Biz Critics say iTunes-only downloads and inflexible pricing are hurting song sales. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Kiss Wasn't Made for Lovin' the Internet File-sharing and downloading have put the concrete boots on the traditional business of selling CDs, and some music groups are not happy about it. But the new world order of the music industry might turn up faster than we thought. |
InternetNews
September 6, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
NBC Doing Just Fine After Apple Break NBC Universal TV content is now available on Amazon Unbox, Amazon.com's digital video download service. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2004
Kelvin Taylor |
Microsoft Biting the Apple The company is taking ever-closer steps to getting in Apple's musical domain. |
