<a href="http://jleach.livejournal.com/2727.html">Jimmy Leach: Amazon's shyness over MP3 launch</a>

Amazon are not normally marked down as the quiet, retiring types, but today they seem to have quietly slipped out the launch of their new music download service with barely a murmur. Their unusually quiet approach is presumably to allow a little time for some live testing, so that if it all falls over, they can do so in relative privacy. (we might have thought about the same when we launched this...)