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Rip-Van-Amazon Awakes, Opens Music Store

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From Internet Outsider

Rip_van_winkleFor us old-timers, it’s great to see Amazon innovating intelligently again.  The company should have launched a digital music store seven years ago, of course, before Apple ran off with the market, but better late than never.

The good news (for Amazon shareholders): This isn’t a Bezos pipe-dream.  Amazon’s existing music store, which has always been one of the best on the web, provides a marvelous platform from which to launch music downloads.  The company is also selling only un-copy-protected music, thus maintaining its religious commitment to customer satisfaction. Lastly, since the company is a neutral third-party not about to corner the digital music business forever (like Apple), record labels and musicians should rush to embrace Amazon’s new store.  Labels hate Apple’s chokehold on digital music, and Amazon may finally represent a viable competitor.

Posted by Henry Blodget

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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