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Amazon ‘likeliest candidate’ to take on iTunes store

Analysts are expecting online retailer Amazon.com to be the most likely to launch a music service to compete with Apple’s new iTunes Music Store, reports c|net. “As millions of songs figuratively fly off the shelves of Apple Computer’s recently launched iTunes Music Store, analysts are looking at Amazon.com as one of the likeliest candidates to take the next crack at the retail music-download business. At a company shareholders meeting Wednesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the e-tailing giant has plans for new stores in the works. He declined to comment on whether those plans include a music-download store, telling the Reuters news service that the idea has been under consideration ‘for years.'”

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