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Customers Get Quick and Easy Access to Over 6 Million DRM-FreeSongs from Amazon MP3 On New T-Mobile G1 Powered by AndroidSoftware SEATTLE --(Business Wire)-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) todayannounced that the Amazon MP3 music store will be pre-loaded on theT-Mobile G1, the world's first Android(TM)-powered mobile phone inpartnership with Google. T-Mobile G1 users can search, download,buy and play music from Amazon MP3, which offers over 6 millionDRM-free MP3 songs from all four major music labels and thousandsof independent labels that can be played on virtually any hardwaredevice and managed with any music software.



"Amazon wants to make it easy for customers to discover, buy,and play their music wherever they happen to be--whether sitting attheir computer or on the go," said Bill Carr, Amazon.com VicePresident for Digital Music and Video. "We look forward to therelease of the T-Mobile G1, which will put Amazon MP3's vastselection of low-priced DRM-free music at the fingertips of evenmore customers in more places."

The T-Mobile G1 comes pre-loaded with an Amazon MP3 application,giving customers a phone-optimized version of the Amazon MP3 storeand the immediate gratification of buying and playing theirfavorite music. Amazon MP3 has worked to make its DRM-free musicavailable through numerous products and services, such as PandoraMySpace Music, and now Android and T-Mobile G1.

Downloading music from Amazon MP3 using the T-Mobile G1 requires aWi-Fi connection but searching, browsing, listening to samples andbuying MP3s can be done wherever customers are connected to theT-Mobile network. Downloaded MP3s can be played anytime on theT-Mobile G1, PCs, Macs or any other MP3 music player.

Launched in September 2007, Amazon MP3 offers a massive selectionof DRM-free MP3 music downloads with more than 6 million songs fromthousands of record labels. Every song and album in the Amazon.comdigital music store is available exclusively in the MP3 formatwithout digital rights management (DRM) software, enablingcustomers to play their music on virtually any personal digitalmusic-capable device, including PCs, Macs(R), iPods(R), iPhones(R),Zunes(TM), Zens(TM), and to burn songs to CDs for these customers'personal use. Amazon MP3's 100 bestselling songs are 89 cents,unless otherwise marked, with over 1 million songs available at 89cents. Amazon MP3's 100 bestselling albums are $8.99 or less,unless otherwise marked. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to$9.99, with more than 80 percent of Amazon MP3's album catalogpriced at $8.99 or below.

The T-Mobile G1 is the world's first Android-powered mobile phonein an exclusive partnership with Google. The T-Mobile G1 combinesfull touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with a mobileWeb experience that includes the popular Google services thatmillions have enjoyed on the desktop, including Google Maps withStreetView, Gmail, YouTube and others. With a fun and intuitiveuser interface and one-touch access to Google Search, the T-MobileG1 is also the first phone to provide access to Android Market,where customers can find and download unique applications to expandand personalize their phone to fit their lifestyle.

Android is an open, free mobile platform developed by the OpenHandset Alliance. It includes everything a manufacturer or operatorneeds to build a mobile phone. Android was designed from the groundup to enable the best user experience possible on a mobile phone.It leverages web and Internet content to provide advanced servicessuch as Mobile Mash-ups.

Songs and albums on Amazon MP3 are generally sold by Amazon DigitalServices, Inc.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based inSeattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offersEarth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth'smost customer-centric company, where customers can find anddiscover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors tooffer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com andother sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and useditems in categories such as books, movies, music & games,digital downloads, electronics & computers, home & garden,toys, kids & baby, grocery, apparel, shoes & jewelry,health & beauty, sports & outdoors, and tools, auto &industrial.

Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers withaccess to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon'sown back-end technology platform, which developers can use toenable virtually any type of business. Examples of the servicesoffered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AmazonSimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon FlexiblePayments Service (Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, includingwww.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp,www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and the Joyo Amazon websites atwww.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn.

As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we,""our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc. and itssubsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.

Forward-Looking Statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements within themeaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results maydiffer significantly from management's expectations. Theseforward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties thatinclude, among others, risks related to competition, management ofgrowth, new products, services and technologies, potentialfluctuations in operating results, international expansion,outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment centeroptimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions andstrategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, systeminterruption, significant amount of indebtedness, inventory,government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. Moreinformation about factors that potentially could affectAmazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filingswith the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its AnnualReport on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, andsubsequent filings.

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