Amazon.com launches digital download service
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Amazon.com  on Thursday  unveiled a widely anticipated Internet service offering movies  and TV shows that can be downloaded to personal computers,  moving it into a nascent and higher-margin business.
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Amazon.com AMZN.O on Thursday   unveiled a widely anticipated Internet service offering movies   and TV shows that can be downloaded to personal computers,   moving it into a nascent and higher-margin business.
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Amazon.com on Thursday unveiled a   widely anticipated Internet service offering movies and TV   shows that can be downloaded to personal computers, moving it   into a nascent and higher-margin business.
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The deal for the provider of digital audiobooks bolsters Amazonâs offerings of audio downloads.
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Along with its library of 2 million songs, Amazon.com is bringing something else to the online music marketplace: competition. When it opened Sept. 25, Amazon's MP3 digital download store undercut iTunes' prices on many albums. Its tracks, most of which sell for 89 to 99 cents, have higher sound quality than standard iTunes tracks and come without copy restrictions - known as digital rights management - that make it difficult to move tracks to a variety of portable devices, including iPods and Windows Media players.
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SEATTLE - Internet giant Amazon on Thursday threw down a gauntlet at Apple by launching Amazon Unbox, its long-anticipated movie-download service. Apple has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday at which it is widely expected to answer by expanding its popular iTunes digital store to include a similar service.
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The deal for the provider of digital audiobooks bolsters Amazonâs  offerings of audio downloads.
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The DVR pioneer now offers direct access to Amazon's Unbox service.
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Amazon.com launched the public beta of its digital music store today with over 2 million DRM-free tracks available, though many artists are missing from the store's catalog.
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Amazon.com plans to enter the DVD rental business in a move that will put the online retail giant in direct competition with Netflix.
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Amazon.com Inc. will begin selling high-definition independent films in the HD DVD format through its on-demand DVD printing service, the company said late Sunday.
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Come Super Bowl Sunday, Amazon.com will get a leg up in the digital music race it's running against Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store.
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SEATTLE -- Amazon.com Inc. will begin selling high-definition independent films in the HD DVD format through its on-demand DVD printing service, the company said yesterday.
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By Elizabeth M. Gillespie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SEATTLE -- Amazon.com launched a video download service Thursday, ending months of speculation that the Internet retailer would be getting into the online TV and movie business.
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Amazon MP3 is a digital music store in public beta that offers DRM-free music downloads, allowing users to download the music to their audio player of choice or burn songs onto CDs.
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Amazon.com unveiled the Unbox Video Store on Thursday, a direct rival to Apple's iTunes 24-7 video store, which allows U.S. users to buy or rent TV shows, movies and other video content from the Internet.
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Amazon.com on Thursday unveiled a   widely anticipated Internet service offering movies and   television shows that can be downloaded onto consumers'   personal computers.