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At its special event in San Francisco, Calif., Apple on Thursday unveiled a multitude of changes to its popular iTunes Music Store—so much so that Apple CEO Steve Jobs called it the “second generation” of the service, which has only been online since late April…iTunes Music Store started out in late April with about 200,000 music tracks available for purchase. Today Jobs announced that by the end of October, the iTunes Music Store will have more than 400,000 available for purchase. What’s more, Apple has signed distribution agreements with 200 independent labels, answering one early criticism of the service, which debuted with content from artists signed to the five major distributors of commercial music in North America.
Audio book support is a new feature of this updated iTunes Music Store. Thanks to an exclusive multi-year agreement with Audible.com, iTunes Music Store users can now purchase 5,000 different audio book titles, with previews available just like their music counterparts.
New Celebrity Playlist Feature
New AudioBooks Section
This is big pop culture news. Apple sold over 10 million songs to Mac users alone since the iTunes Music Store premiered.
Apple unveils iTunes, Music Store for Windows
At a special event held today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited iTunes software for Windows. The service provides not only digital music playback features for Windows users, but also offers them access to the iTunes Music Store. Both iTunes and the iTunes Music Store have hitherto been limited for use by Macintosh users.iTunes for Windows is identical to its Macintosh counterpart.
Windows users: click here to download the free iTunes Music Store software.
How many songs will they sell now that Windows users can also access the store? This will continue to revolutionize the music business. I’ll be posting screen shots from the updated iTunes music store here later today.
