Amazon, Warner Music team up to sell music downloads
NEW YORK (AFP) — Amazon and Warner Music Group are offering music downloads that would have no copy protection, making them playable on virtually any digital audio device, the companies announced Thursday.
The Internet retail giant's digital music store, Amazon MP3, will launch sales of the music downloads Thursday.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The companies did not announce the price of the songs. Other songs at Amazon MP3 (www.amazon.com/mp3) are priced at a range of 89 cents to 99 cents
Launched in September 2007, Amazon MP3 offers a la carte MP3 music downloads that are free of digital rights management (DRM) software. The store offers more than 2.9 million songs from over 33,000 record labels.
"Consumers want flexibility with respect to what they can do with music once they purchase it, and we want them to have that flexibility, which is why we're pleased to offer our artists' music on Amazon MP3," said Michael Nash, senior vice president, Digital Strategy and Business Development for Warner Music Group.
Warner Music Group became the only stand-alone music company to be publicly traded in the United States in May 2005.
Its vast portfolio includes record labels Asylum, Atlantic, Elektra, Nonesuch, Reprise and Rhino.
