Amazon Helping To Change The Business Of Music


	Amazon Helping To Change The Business Of Music

wjbuntz

12-19-2007 3:58 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/26e2aa13-19ad-4fa8-823c-16d6fce37d44/10E23E3C-2DDC-416C-A499-1B328E80A76A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/19/amazon-helping-to-change-the-business-of-music/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/19/amazon-helping-to-change-the-business-of-music/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/19/amazon-helping-to-change-the-business-of-music/"><P>The signs are everywhere that a revolution is taking place in music. <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/10/the-inevitable-death-of-drm/">DRM is history</A>, the price of music is <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/04/the-inevitable-march-of-recorded-music-towards-free/">falling towards zero</A> (and sometimes even free <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/17/even-free-cant-compete-with-music-piracy/">isn’t enough to slow piracy</A>), and even big music sites like Yahoo are beginning to <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/08/yahoos-ian-rogers-to-music-industry-inconvenience-doesnt-scale/">break ranks with the RIAA</A> and labels.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/19/amazon-helping-to-change-the-business-of-music/">But Amazon may be doing more than anyone else to change the way music is discovered, promoted and sold. Not only do they have a music store that <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/16/another-break-in-the-wall-amazoncom-to-sell-drm-free-music/">only sells DRM-free music</A>, but they are experimenting with startups who are trying to break the stranglehold that labels have on discovering, promoting and marketing new artists. These startups are giving artists a different path to find their fans. And Amazon is helping them.
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<IMG alt="" class="shot2" src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/sellabandlogo.jpg" /><IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.7/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>Today Amazon <A href="http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/12/18/amazon-partners-with-sellaband-the-bank-for-music-fans/">announced<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.7/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> that it is partnering with a European startup called <A href="http://sellaband.com/">SellABand<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.7/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> and will sell music from SellABand artists.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/19/amazon-helping-to-change-the-business-of-music/">Earlier this year we <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/29/sellaband-music-model-may-be-working/">noted that the model seems to work</A>. Today, more than 6,000 artists have uploaded music to the site</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/10E23E3C-2DDC-416C-A499-1B328E80A76A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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