Amazon will begin offering a library of streaming music sometime in June or July, but the selection will be limited and only include songs older than six months. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos The information comes via a well-sourced report in BuzzFeed, and confirms leaks in April that Amazon is finally ready to launch a long-rumored music service to compete with an increasingly crowded field that includes Google, Apple, Spotify and others. The report says Amazon’s offering will be packaged as yet another add-on that is intended to make its annual $99 Prime membership more attractive. In other words, Prime members will soon get to enjoy an online jukebox in addition to 2-day shipping, and Amazon’s limited but growing selection of e-books and movies.
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