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Amazon launches its own mp3 download center. It’s called Amazon MP3 and it has its own web address. This is what I got from them today:

Amazon MP3 offers Earth’s biggest selection of a la carte, DRM-free MP3 music downloads. With over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels, Amazon MP3 complements Amazon.com’s existing selection of over 1 million CDs to offer customers more selection of physical and digital music than any other retailer.

Every song and album on Amazon MP3 is available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software. This means that Amazon MP3 customers are free to enjoy their music downloads using any hardware device, organize their music using any music management application, and burn songs to CDs.

Most songs are priced from 89 cents to 99 cents, with more than 1 million of the 2 million songs priced at 89 cents. The top 100 best-selling songs are 89 cents, unless marked otherwise. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99. The top 100 best-selling albums are $8.99 or less, unless marked otherwise.

Every song on Amazon MP3 is encoded at 256 kilobits per second, which gives customers high audio quality at a manageable file size.

Looks like they realized where the music industry future resides but they should have started it long time ago to become number one today because the position is already taken by iTunes, the biggest online digital music download system. However, let’s celebrate the new feature on Amazon, not only for buyers but for sellers too and when I say sellers I mean affiliates.

Until December 31 associates are eligible to earn 20% on all MP3 referrals (up to $1.50 per item) so hurry up because after the January 1, 2008 the referral fees will be 10%. That’s still an OK rate but why not earn more while you have a chance… The bad side is, Amazon MP3 Download is available only to US citizens (regarding the purchase) but the songs are between $0.89 and $0.99 a pop so yippy yay for those who live in the States.

They also have these pretty banners for your blog in case you want to put an affiliate link pointing to Amazon MP3 but if you want to find out more, you can read the official news at their blog.

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