Rhapsody America has become the latest digital music store to launch a DRM-free option, with all four major labels signed up. Pricing is 99 cents per track and (mostly) $9.99 per album, with more than five million 256kbps MP3s available at launch. The new MP3 Store is integrated with the Rhapsody subscription service, so that users can easily download songs they've listened to on that for transfer to portable devices. Meanwhile, Rhapsody is also providing a download manager app that can automatically import purchases into iTunes.

The full article is available to our subscribers only.
If you're a subscriber, you can login here

You can subscribe here (where there are options for monthly, twice-yearly, annual and trial subscriptions)