The Mountain View giant finally tackles with Google Music, Amazon and Apple on the front of the sale of online music ... but only in the U.S. currently.
"Finally!" Some will say. Google opens its online music store from competing with Apple's iTunes and Amazon MP3 already well established in this market. Available in beta since last May only to U.S. Internet, the Google Music service provides each user a free storage space "in the cloud" is equivalent to 20,000 shares (or approximately 100 GB).
The music can then be stored and read in streaming wherever you are or from any computer, smartphone or tablet. But Google Music will now step further by proposing the sale of securities in MP3 320 Kbps via its online store and Android Market. Rates vary from 0.69 to $ 1.29 per share, the sale of albums is also planned, and some pieces are even available (live concerts, exclusive titles, etc..) History of attracting users. Google prides itself on offering 13 million shares to launch the service by offering the catalogs of three of the four largest music producers such as Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and EMI. Warner Music is missing but it is almost certain that if successful the new service from Google, it comes quickly to the ranks.
The independent labels are also not forgotten since 1000 of them have already signed with the giant net. The Google Music Artists Hub also allows independent, in exchange for $ 25, to create their page, upload and sell their works and themselves and hope to reach 70% of revenues. The service is available to all mobile devices running at least Android 2.2 (Froyo) but for now only the U.S. can benefit, no release date for France have been brought forward.
So we see that Google does not do things like everyone else and launched its service in reverse compared to what competitors have done. Indeed, Google has launched its first beta Music by inviting users to upload to their MP3 libraries (legal or not), before launching a commercial offer to sell music. The idea of course being to accustom people to the service and then encourage them to buy music legally that is automatically donated to their storage space online, without having to upload them there (like what Amazon offers ).
