Amazon.com Inc. said it's launched its digital music download service, Amazon MP3, which will provide music to all types of music players.
The Seattle, Wash., online retailer (Nasdaq: AMZN) said the site has more than 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists. Unlike similar sites such as Apple's iTunes, Amazon's MP3 site doesn't use digital rights management (DRM) software, which means Amazon customers can freely move the music from their iPod or computer to any other device that plays music.
Amazon said most songs will cost between 89 cents and 99 cents.
"This new digital music service has already been through an extensive private beta (test), and today we're excited to offer it to our customers as a fully functional public beta," said Bill Carr, Amazon.com vice president for digital music, about the service, which was announced in May.
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