Warner's Entire Digital Music Catalog For Sale on Amazon as MP3s
On Thursday, Warner Music Group began selling music on Amazon in the MP3 format without the digital rights management that hampers many of the files sold in iTunes and other online music stores.
Listening Post confirmed with spokespeople for both Amazon and Universal Music Group that the deal includes all of the label's digitized music catalog -- "hundreds of thousands of tracks," according to WMG. Amazon's store now contains over 2.9 million tracks --all in the unprotected MP3 format -- including music from three of the world's four major labels. (EMI began offering its digital catalog to Amazon in May, and Universal has experimented with MP3s on Amazon since August.)