Amazon's music store going live this month?

Take this one for whatever it's worth, but reportedly, Amazon's digital music store is set to open up shop this month. Apparently, the firm has "tentatively set a mid-September target for the launch of its music service," but unsurprisingly, no one from Amazon was available to comment on the hunch. 'Course, it's not like we've got long to wait before this gets proven one way or the other, right?

[Via Reuters]

[Rusty @ Sep 1st 2007 12:34PM]

Boycott Amazon, they're supporting animal fighting!!

http://www.hsus.org/acf/news/pressrel/amazon_lawsuit.html

[sbrown @ Sep 1st 2007 1:17PM]

"approximately 20 dogs are wounded, tortured or killed solely for the purpose of making the movie."

Not many films can say that eh?

[Naris @ Sep 1st 2007 5:32PM]

Amazon sells just about everything... but I'm sure they'll be good and remove it soon. After all, no company really wants to have any sort of lawsuit against it.

As to the topic at hand...

I'd love to see unprotected MP3s at 256kbps bitrate. Not quite cd quality, but on the move in a portable such a distinction really wouldn't matter. Hopefully it's priced more like Wal-mart's download store (88c a song) than the pricing for DRM free stuff on itunes.

Heh... would've loved to see them go all out and design their own DAP with a sigmatel chip then offer Ogg Vorbis but... well one can dream can't they?