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  "textContent": "Courtesy of _Hypebot_’s [New Music Business Briefing][New Mus] this week: The mainstream music industry press (in the form of _Billboard_) talks about [the possibility of Amazon entering the digital music market][the pos].  Some quick points, for those keeping score at home:\n\n- _Hypebot_ brags that they’ve been out in front on the Amazon story for some time now.  Fair play to them, they’ve done a good job of keeping up to date with Amazon-related developments.\n- _Billboard_ revisits the complaints of the major labels that Amazon wasn’t willing to take on Apple with a DRM-based offering.  Sorry, folks, I pointed out over a year ago [what a stupid idea that was][what a]\"), especially given that Amazon is in business to serve its customers, not the business models of the major labels.\n- As [I predicted][I predi], Amazon has at least been trying to establish price points for a la carte downloads below the prevailing \\$0.99 per track model (which in turn is based on a wholesale price to labels of \\$0.70 per track).  However Amazon is encountering resistance, and it’s not clear if it will be successful, at least initially.\n\nInteresting times.  But enough Amazon for now; this is an eMusic blog, so I’ll try to post on eMusic next.\n\n[New Mus]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/r/typepad/DqMf/3/109657268/new_music_busin_11.html \"Net Broadcasters Denied, NIN Arrives, Amazon Gets Ready & More\"\n[the pos]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070416/wr_nm/mp3_dc \"Universal, Amazon beef up MP3 sales space\"\n[what a]: http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/7141 \"Frank Hecker on Challenges to Apple’s Digital Music Business (AAPL, AMZN\n[I predi]: http://swindleeeee.com/2007/04/07/amazon-predictions-part-2-selling-digital-music-and-cds-together/",
  "title": "Amazon rumors continued"
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