Amazon to launch music-download service and own-brand music players?

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Amazon is looking to launch own-brand portable music players and a music-download service to rival Apple's iTunes Music Store - perhaps as early as this summer - according to The Wall Street Journal.

The world's top online retailer - with annual net sales or $8.49 billion reported in its 2005 financial results - is, said to be,

"In advanced talks with the four global music companies about a digital-music service with a range of features designed to set it apart. Among them: Amazon-branded portable music players, designed and built for the retailer, and a subscription service that would deeply discount and preload those devices with songs, not unlike mobile phones that are included with subscription plans as part of the deal."

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