What The Web Is Saying About The New Amazon MP3 Download Store
We love the new Amazon MP3 download store. What’s not to like about DRM free downloads you can play anywhere on anything for $.89 to $.99 and albums $4.99 - $9.99? But what do others think of the new service?
Engadet - “If you’re into DRM-free music, you have a reason to get pretty excited today.”
Gozmodo - “Good news: there’s loads of Bowie, Stones, Daft Punk, Kanye. And the even better news is that the only Britney, Pussycat Dolls and Avril Lavigne you can find are karaoke versions, which means they’ll be better than the originals. The bad news is that, despite a lot of big names, there’s also a lot of filler: a gazillion different Willy Nelson compilations, both clean and dirty versions of Kanye and Fiddy, and hordes of unknowns, all which must eat into Amazon’s two million track.”
GigaOM - “Bottom line: 26 out of 50. I am not ready to write Amazon off just yet. We might have a worthy competitor…”
David Card - “Amazon’s 2.3 million song catalog is fairly crippled (ODM: its missing some major labels who won’t sell DRM free) …But pretty soon, consumers will see the fruit of competition based on pricing, merchandising, packaging, user experience, editorial, knowledge of consumer habits, etc., etc. instead of on random acts of technology…”
Coolfer - “Let people know the difference between buying the album and buying each song individually. For example, the pitch at Devenda Banhart’s Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon page: ‘Album Savings: $6.85 compared to buying all songs.’ Well done.”
The Digital Freedom Campaign - “Amazon.com’srecognition that giving consumers what they want – digital music – the way they want it – without burdensome DRM software – makes good business sense…we hope more retailers like Amazon will be there to provide it.”
Hypebot - “Amazon has set the bar higher and that’s good for the entire industry. Plus the Amazon name and buying experience and the universal usability of the tracks should help expand the universe of download buyers….(But) it’s not the iTunes killer.”
Read more analysis and comments from Hypebot here and their news coverage of the opening and which labels are in and out here.
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