Amazon launches music downloads

Online retail website Amazon has launched a UK music download service. The BBC reports.

Amazon MP3 will sell tracks from 59p (86 cents) and albums from £3 ($4,40).

The new music store will offer more than 3 million songs that will work on any digital music player, including Apple's iPod.

The move puts Amazon in direct competition with Apple for a stake in the growing market of online music sales, which in Britain alone was worth an estimated £163m $239m) in 2007.

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