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The music industry is finally comfortable selling digital music without copy protection, but the huge shift hasn't resulted in dramatically higher sales. Instead, it produced something that major music labels have long sought: a strong No. 2 competitor to Apple. Amazon's MP3 store -- which sells only songs without copy protection -- has quietly become No. 2 in digital sales.

Competition Sneaks Up on iTunes

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If you have reached a certain level of maturity, you probably have boxes in the basement filled with artifacts known as vinyl records. We played these dinosaurs of the analog age on gadgets called turntables, and if we played them enough times -- or spilled enough beer on them -- they developed that combination of crackles, pops and distortion that teary-eyed audio tweaks like to call the warmth of vinyl.

LPDock Brings Vinyl Oldies Into the iTunes Age

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Anjula Acharia-Bath made sure she was in the right place at the right time. The cofounder and CEO of online entertainment portal DesiHits had heard nothing but no from Apple after repeatedly pitching a sales partnership. She didn't lose heart. Instead, she happened to hit connection paydirt while dining at her regular hangout, Tamerine, a Vietnamese restaurant that's a hot spot for Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

From South Asia to iTunes