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Originally published September 25, 2007 at 12:00 AM | Page modified September 25, 2007 at 11:34 AM

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Amazon.com begins selling digital music downloads

Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. launched its much-anticipated digital music store Tuesday with more than 2,000 songs. The store, Amazon MP3...

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SEATTLE — Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. launched its much-anticipated digital music store Tuesday with more than 2,000 songs.

The store, Amazon MP3, lets shoppers buy and download individual songs or entire albums using Amazon's 1-Click button. The tracks are not protected by digital rights management software and can be copied to multiple computers, burned onto CDs and played on most types of computers and portable devices. Songs cost 89 cents to 99 cents each and albums sell for $5.99 to $9.99.

Amazon's store faces an established trenched market leader, iTunes, which has also taken steps to offer some songs without digital rights management. Apple Inc.'s DRM software limited the number of times a song could be burned to a CD and limited its playback to iPods and other Apple systems.

EMusic.com Inc., another popular download site, sells MP3 tracks without DRM but, like Amazon's store, doesn't offer artists on major music labels that still require DRM.

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