Amazon Looking to "Rapidly Grow" Digital Music Team

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Now that it’s got a very Apple-like system in place—tablet computer paired with digital media—Amazon.com appears to be cranking up the volume on its online music service as well.

The San Francisco office of Amazon’s a2z research and development subsidiary is chock full of job ads for people to work on the Amazon MP3 store and Cloud Player, the e-commerce giant’s challenger to Apple’s long-dominant iTunes music platform. The company says it’s looking to “rapidly grow this team,” and the 21 job ads listed paint a picture of that growth.

iTunes could use a strong challenger to it's dominance in digital music.

Personally, I no longer need to buy music. At home, I stream internet radio. In the car, I listen to FM radio. Out and about, I have my CD collection ripped to MP3s. These sources more than satisfy my music needs.