Amazon to Jump into Online Music Fray

It looks like Apple and EMI really set the whole thing off. Now Amazon is launching an online music store next month — and significantly, this one will only sell unprotected music.

This means that you can buy music tracks that play on your phone, on your iPod, on your PC – wherever you want, without having to worry about restrictive “digital rights management” (DRM).

Amazon will likely sell music from EMI as well as from a number of independent labels, according to the Times

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