21.04.2008 23:21 Uhr, Quelle: 9to5Mac

Amazon MP3 beats iTunes on album sales, kinda?

 iTunes may be the number one US music retailer, but Amazon boss Jeff Bezos thinks he has the Apple service beat in terms of album sales. Bezos talked business with Fortune this week, it's a wide-ranging chat that covers many of the bases of the giant online retailers international operations and his near-death experience during a fated helicopter ride. And includes the Amazon boss' claim that his MP3 service outsells Apple, at least when it comes to album sales, at least proportionally. An Amazon spokesman explains: "One exec I know at a big label, who asked to remain anonymous, says he's excited by one trend in particular: At Apple''s iTunes store, two thirds of the music sold is single tracks and one third is albums. But at Amazon, two thirds of the music sold is albums and one third is tracks."  The Amazon boss

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