Amazon, Music, And A Sunny Forecast For The Cloud

Last week, Amazon launched its Cloud Drive, with an emphasis on music storage.  While there have been a number of “jukebox” services these last 10 years (Napster 2.0, MusicNow, Virgin Digital, Yahoo Music Unlimited, MTV Urge, MOG, Spotify, Thumbplay, Rdio), relatively few “locker” offerings have emerged—although rumors of new locker services from Apple and Google sound promising.  Last week,...