ADVISORY/Amazon Recommends Offers an Easy Way for Millions of Customers to Discover and Enjoy Great New Music.Entertainment Editors, Music Writers ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2002
WHO: Leading online retailer, Amazon.com, offers customers an
innovative new way to discover great new music from some of
today's most overlooked artists. Amazon Recommends is a sixty
minute audio stream, featuring some of the best
underappreciated CDs of the past year. Amazon Recommends
allows customers to discover artists they may not have been
able to easily find in the past, exposing millions of
Amazon.com customers to new music.
WHAT: Amazon Recommends features fourteen different artists in
one, sixty minute audio music stream. From alt-country to
garage rockers to music veteran's and more, Amazon Recommends'
artists were voted on and chosen by Amazon.com's music team.
Artists include: Norah Jones; The Hives; Solomon Burke; Paul
Westerberg; Guided by Voices; Cato Salsa Experience; Tift
Merrit; Chuck Prophet; Caitlin Cary; Wilco; Flaming Lips; Be
Good Tanyas; The Vines; Doves.
WHERE: Amazon Recommends is easily available to all customers who
visit Amazon.com's Music store, www.amazon.com/music.
Customers who purchase any of the top sellers in Amazon.com's
music store will receive the bonus music stream and gain
immediate access to new music. Amazon Recommends is also
included along side any of the artists featured in the music
stream.
WHY: According to a recent study by Arbitron Inc. and Edison Media
Research, consumers who watch or listen to streamed media
online bought more than one and a half times the number of CDs
than the average American in the past year(a). In conjunction
with record labels, large and small, Amazon Recommends is an
entirely new way for customers to experience and discover
music from multiple artists in one music stream.
WHEN: Customers who purchase a CD from Amazon.com will have access
to the Amazon Recommends music stream from now until October
31, 2002.
HOW: For more information about Amazon Recommends, or to interview
an Amazon.com editor, contact Amazon.com Media Relations
206/266-7180.
About Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, www.amazon.com) The largest online shopping site and one of the most widely known e-commerce sites on the Web. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995, it had 11 employees by year's end. Within four years, it had more than 1,600 employees and four million customers. Amazon.com seeks to be the world's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. Amazon.com and sellers list millions of unique new and used items in categories such as electronics, computers, kitchen products and housewares house·wares pl.n. Cooking utensils, dishes, and other small articles used in a household, especially in the kitchen. , books, music, DVDs, videos, camera and photo items, toys, baby and baby registry The configuration database in all 32-bit versions of Windows that contains settings for the hardware and software in the PC it is installed in. The Registry is made up of the SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT files. Many settings previously stored in the WIN.INI and SYSTEM. , software, computer and video games This article is about the British magazine covering computer and video games. For the American magazine, see Computer Games Magazine. Computer And Video Games (CVG , cell phones and service, tools and hardware, travel services, magazine subscriptions and outdoor living products. Through Amazon Marketplace Amazon Marketplace ( i.e:Third-party Marketplace ) is Amazon.com's fixed-price online marketplace that allows sellers to survey their goods alongside Amazon's offerings. Buyers can buy new and used items sold directly by a third party through Amazon. , zShops and Auctions, any business or individual can sell virtually anything to Amazon Amazon, in Greek mythology Amazon (ăm`əzŏn), in Greek mythology, one of a tribe of warlike women who lived in Asia Minor. .com's millions of customers. (a) Arbitron Arbitron (NYSE: ARB) is a radio audience research company in the United States which collects listener data on radio audiences similar to that collected by Nielsen Media Research on television audiences. Inc. and Edison Edison, township (1990 pop. 88,680), Middlesex co., NE N.J., inc. 1870 as Raritan Township, renamed 1954. Edison's varied manufactures include light trucks, chemicals, metal products, electrical and electronic equipment, machinery, and instruments. Media Research news release August 19, 2002 |
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