In truth, this is hardly surprising, given that Amazon sells physical and digital music in the UK, while iTunes is purely digital.
April 17th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
NPD Group has shared some stats from its latest Annual Music Study report in the US, drawing some useful conclusions about Apple's share of the music downloads market, as well as the (positive) impact...
April 4th, 2013 by Music Ally
Amazon started offering its AutoRip feature for CDs in January, adding digital versions of CD albums bought by customers from its site to their cloud libraries.
March 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally
2013 is shaping up as a momentous year for streaming music, with Google, Amazon, Apple and Beats all in talks about new services to compete.
March 20th, 2013 by Music Ally
Google, Apple and now Amazon: the list of potential entrants to the streaming music market grows by the day. The Verge claims that Amazon is in "very informal" talks with music rightsholders.
March 6th, 2013 by Music Ally
Amazon's mobile ads API is only live in the US at the moment, for developers making apps for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets and other Android devices – distributed through Amazon's app store.
February 11th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Remember the days when EMI's lawsuit against cloud locker MP3tunes was being watched closely by Amazon, Google and Apple as they mulled their own cloud-music strategies? We're wondering if history could...
January 30th, 2013 by Music Ally
Amazon missed analyst forecasts, seeing its net income drop 45% year-on-year to $97m in the fourth quarter of 2012, but saw its shares jump by 10% immediately afterwards.
January 18th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Apple’s iOS ecosystem has never been as closed off to non-iTunes digital music stores as it may seem. It’s just a bit fiddlier to use rival download stores, whether using Amazon MP3′s...
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