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Amazon Mulls a Music Store Wired News Report
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59026,00.html

11:20 AM May. 29, 2003 PT

Amazon.com said it plans to open several more stores on its online shopping website this year and confirmed it has been considering online distribution of digital media such as music for several years.

The Seattle-based Web retailer, which started a new office products category and an apparel store in the last year, said at its annual shareholders meeting that it would keep expanding as it aims to reach profitability this year.

Asked if Amazon (AMZN) was planning to open an online music store, a company spokesperson said, "We've been looking at it for years," but declined to say if such a service was in the works or whether one would be launched this year.

Amazon already has much of the technology needed to sell music online, since it sells digital books on its website and also offers short music clips for users to sample music when buying a CD.
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