[macvoiceover] Re: Fwd: Amazon.com Launches Accessible DRM Free Music Store, Undercuts Apple, Inc.'s Prices

The problem I had with the post was the missinformation in it about apple 
accessability.

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From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:49 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Fwd: Amazon.com Launches Accessible DRM Free 
Music Store, Undercuts Apple, Inc.'s Prices


I have tested the Mac version of Amazon's MP3 Downloader application
and have found it to be 100% VoiceOver compatible. I was also able to
download music without any trouble. The software will install your
Amazon tracks neatly into iTunes just as if you had used iTunes to buy
them.

While the selection is not as great as iTunes and the prices not as
predictable I would say that this is the beginning of the end for DRM
music. Amazon is a big player in this. Soon iTunes will have to
respond by removing it's DRM as well.

Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
gkearney@xxxxxxxxx



On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:11 PM, David Poehlman wrote:

>
>
> As initially reported on yesterdays Main Menu ACB radio show, and
> today in the WSJ, Amazon.com has just launched an MP3 music store
> that undercuts market leader Apple, Inc.'s prices, provides music
> without cumbersome so-called digital rights management, and is
> accessible.
>
> As reported by Jeff Bishop on Main Menu http://twitter.com/mainmenu 
> http://twitter.com/jeffbishop
>  the buying process can largely be done from with in a web browser.
> In other music stores, like Itunes, the buying process is often done
> using an inaccessible client interface that will not work with
> screen readers used by the blind such as Jaws For Windows.
>
> The Amazon Music store uses a download manager client, which
> completes the download after a consumer makes a purchase, which has
> been reported to be accessible.
>
> Its also noteworthy that Amazon recently signed a pact with The
> National Federation Of The Blind, NFB, pledging to make much of its
> user interfaces accessible.
>
> Appel, Inc. has made no such agreements, and the Cuperteeno based
> companys products are largely inaccessible to the blind, and at the
> same time the firm has alluded legal action on the part of advocacy
> groups.
>
>
> -Mika
> http://twitter.com/pyyhkala
>
>
> Amazon's MP3 Store
> Takes Aim at Apple
>
> By MYLENE MANGALINDAN
> September 26, 2007; Page B3
>
> Amazon.com Inc. introduced a digital-music store featuring songs
> without copyright-protection technology, as the online retailer aims
> to challenge Apple
> Inc.'s online iTunes Store.
>
> Consumers can buy individual songs or entire albums from the Amazon
> MP3 Store's more than two million songs. They can burn the songs to
> CDs, play them on
> music players including Apple's iPod, and copy them to various
> computers. Amazon is undercutting iTunes' prices by offering songs
> starting at 89 cents
> and the top 100 best-selling albums at $8.99; Apple sells songs for
> 99 cents to $1.29 and albums for $11.99.
>
> The music industry, amid sliding sales and growing piracy, has shown
> interest in offerings that compete with Apple's, in part so it can
> have more flexibility
> to raise prices. Apple iTunes is responsible for 90% or more of
> online-music downloads some weeks, according to record company
> executives. The iPod has
> a 73% market share, according to market-research company NPD Group.
> An Apple spokesman didn't return calls to comment.
>
> News of the Amazon digital-music service was reported early last
> year. At the time, people familiar with the matter said the service
> could launch as early
> as mid-2006 as Amazon aimed to finalize licensing deals with the
> major music labels. While Amazon's music store offers songs from
> Vivendi SA's Universal
> Music Group and EMI Group PLC, it isn't clear when it might offer
> music from the other two major music companies, Warner Music Group
> Corp. and Sony BMG
> Music Entertainment, a joint venture of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann
> AG. Universal, which is making only part of its music catalog
> available on Amazon's
> store, has said it is experimenting with music downloads without
> copyright protection; the company hasn't said that it is permanently
> selling music in
> that form.
>
> Amazon has expanded beyond selling books, CDs, and DVDs by moving
> into groceries and online-software services for other companies. The
> Seattle company began
> offering digital video a year ago and short stories and chapters of
> books in electronic form two years ago.
>
> Amazon played down its efforts to take market share from Apple, but
> highlighted the consumer appeal of songs without so-called digital-
> rights management,
> or DRM, technology. Music companies such as EMI have been making
> their catalogs available without anticopying software. Apple sells
> EMI's music without
> copying restrictions.
>
> Write to Mylene Mangalindan at
> mylene.mangalindan@xxxxxxx
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