Internet giant. Google. can start a service to sell mp3- music rival iTunes from Apple, after two weeks. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing its own sources.
Online music store, rumors of which go for quite some time, will complement which is now in beta testing phase, Google Music service. It allows users to upload to the network, servers Google, and manage your music placed in a ' cloud ' music library.
As is the case with iTunes from Apple, songs in the store can be purchased at the price of the order of dollars apiece, or $ 10 for a whole album. To increase sales in the new store Google intends to use its own social network. Google. Users will be able to share songs with their ' friends ' in social networks, and they will be able to listen to the song for free once, and then if you want to buy it.
At the same time, at the start of digital music store from Google will be somewhat inferior. According to the newspaper, the Internet giant still managed to negotiate a license to use music with only two of the four largest record companies in the world - EMI and Universal. At the same time, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group until a license to provide the conditions offered by Google do not agree. As a result, users can not find them in the store the desired song, if the Executive has a contract to produce discs with Sony or Warner.
Sony, supposedly, does not want to cooperate with Google a matter of principle - in the company strongly dissatisfied with enough effective measures to prevent Google from unlicensed content on YouTube and video sharing on the mobile platform Android.
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