FYI

From: Shawn Kuo (shawn@tradename.com)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 15:59:38 CET

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    Amazon.com, the giant Internet retailer, has dramatically expanded its music downloads as part of an effort to rejuvenate sagging CD sales. Indie artists can post tunes there, and happy fans can contribute to "virtual tip jars" -- with Amazon.com taking its cut. The team behind Ogg Vorbis, an open-source digital music file format, has created the nonprofit Xiph Foundation to give them some cover in the increasingly litigious online music arena. Amazon cranks up the music downloads



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