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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<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://content9.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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