Amazon Mp3 will begin geographical expansion in 2008

Amazon's largest online mp3 store sells digital music so far only in the US. Today, Amazon announced its intention to go beyond the US this year.

"We receive thousands of emails from Amazon users from around the world asking us when we will make Amazon MP3 available outside US. They want to quickly get access to a large range of high quality music tracks, without DRM in MP3 format, which they can play on almost any a music device that already exists or will appear in the future, ”said Bill Carr, Amazon.com VP for digital music. “We are pleased to inform our users that Amazon MP3 will become international this year.”

Amazon Mp3 is currently the only store selling mp3 from all 4 major labels (Universal, Sony BMG, Waner Music, EMI), as well as from 33 thousand independent labels. The range of mp3 is more than 3.3 million songs from more than 270 thousand performers.

Any details about the timing and countries of international expansion Amazon mp3 does not say anything. With the most likely option, the geography of Amazon mp3 will repeat the geography of the iTunes Music Store (as we all know, Russia is not on this list, not yet).