After successful trials in the States, Amazon are going to offer their music store globally now which will be direct competition with Apple’s Music Store. The big difference with Amazon’s offering is that the music will have no Digital Rights Management (DRM) tied into it - meaning anyone can buy the songs, and download to the mp3 player, phone or computer of their choice.

Record companies are flocking to Amazon as they realise people that buy music want to keep it & use it under their terms, not Apple’s. It would be nice to choose the format of the music - but it looks as if “mp3″ is the way forward, for the meantime at least, for Amazon. [SHOW ME]