Apple Maintains Digital Music Dominance, But Amazon Making Significant Gains

[milo]

I bought the bike long after I switched to Amazon MP3 for music.

Well that's just even more sad.

 

[alent1234]

what if you don't have a Mac?

with amazon i can read in a web browser on an cheapo PC without having to install anything
kindle may be DRM'd but its a lot easier to read a kindle book on a variety of platforms than the non-DRM solution

Go to the App Store and download an epub reader for the Mac.

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Getting my wisdom straight from Wikipedia:



So Amazon is trapping you in their proprietary format, while ePub is a standard. Download an ePub book, rename from .epub to .zip, unzip it, and all the files are there in xhtml format.



I actually own quite a few ePub books, bought through iTunes, from a publisher that tries to publish everything DRM free. These ePub books are DRM free on the iTunes store and everywhere else (they have a list of twenty or so stores), the only version with DRM is the one on Amazon because Amazon insists on it and they can't make Amazon sell their books DRM free.

 

[Tinmania]

Well that's just even more sad.

It's downright bizarre that another person's toy makes you sad.




Michael

 

[morespce54]

The music files on iTunes are playable on a broad range of players, not just iWhatever.

But it's true that music is often cheaper on amazon.

They used to have those 69 cents songs/album deal which I often enjoyed. Now in the "post-jobs era" those seems to be gone...

 

[w00master]

If the word is meant to be pronounced "Spot-a-fye," which it is, then it needed to be spelled "Spottify." As spelled, it would be pronounced so that it rhymes with "Goat-a-fye." Or they could have invented a word that has anything to do with music, but as that's a stylistic complaint and not structural, I'll set it aside.

This may not seem like much, given that the English language features no shortage of unusual and convoluted rule exceptions, but this is a particularly egregious ignorance of a fairly basic rule of vowel construction. Disregarding rules this fundamental leads to aberrations such as the aforementioned Jobing.com (should be "Jobbing"), or worse, "Hot in Herre" (should be "Here"). Or, the crown king of all ignorant blather, courtesy of juvenile text-speak eveywhere, "Wat" (should be "What").

I see your point but "I" before "E" says hello.

Still, IMHO not really a valid argument at all and frankly. Silly.

 

[Mike Valmike]

Still, IMHO not really a valid argument at all and frankly. Silly.

You don't think so? Would you obtain medical services from an office labeled "Dockter Smith" or have your car repaired at "Quallitee Auto Service?" If not, why not? Because their clear illiteracy says something about them as a company/practitioner/vendor/professional. So it is with Spotify. True, music is less essential than health care or transportation, but the principle applies nonetheless. As Captain Picard said, the line must be drawn here, and no further.

 

[Tinmania]

You don't think so? Would you obtain medical services from an office labeled "Dockter Smith" or have your car repaired at "Quallitee Auto Service?" If not, why not? Because their clear illiteracy says something about them as a company/practitioner/vendor/professional. So it is with Spotify. True, music is less essential than health care or transportation, but the principle applies nonetheless. As Captain Picard said, the line must be drawn here, and no further.

Methinks this place would give you a coronary:

Michael

 

[mikefj2004]

Amazon 4 sure

I have long stopped using Apple's iTunes store and have made the switch over to Amazon. Why? Prices and Prices.

 

[Boston007]

As far as digital music goes Amazon rocks. I still prefer to buy CDs b/c I'm a lossless guy. But when I do buy digital it's on Amazon. 1) Usually much better price & 2) free cloud storage and playback.

DITTO DITTO DITTO

I wish they still made SACD, I loved those. incredible sound on them.

 

[gnasher729]

what if you don't have a Mac?

Go to www.windowsrumors.com and ask if they have an ePub reader for Windows.

 

[alent1234]

Go to www.windowsrumors.com and ask if they have an ePub reader for Windows.

don't need an epub reader when kindle has a web reader with no software to install. just need an html 5 browser

 

[Robins133]

Re:Apple Maintains Digital Music Dominance, But Amazon Making Significant Gains

don't need an epub reader when kindle has a web reader with no software to install. just need an html 5 browser

Hey it is right that html 5 browser with lots of features.

Thank You

 

[Oletros]

Go to the App Store and download an epub reader for the Mac.

You can't read and iBook epub on any epub reader apart of the iOS one

So Amazon is trapping you in their proprietary format, while ePub is a standard. Download an ePub book, rename from .epub to .zip, unzip it, and all the files are there in xhtml format.

ePub is an standard, Fairplay epubs are not an standard.

I actually own quite a few ePub books, bought through iTunes, from a publisher that tries to publish everything DRM free. These ePub books are DRM free on the iTunes store and everywhere else (they have a list of twenty or so stores), the only version with DRM is the one on Amazon because Amazon insists on it and they can't make Amazon sell their books DRM free.

Tor and O'Reilly ebooks are DRM free on Amazon. Can you give us the name of that publisher?