Music industry news from Hypebot:

iTunes dropped the price of DRM free downloads from $1.29 to 99 cents and says its adding more DRM free indies.

Strong sales at the new Amazon MP3 Store could make it second only to iTunes and a new affiliate program that pays 20% of sales could help.

BEWARE: OurDigitalMusic.com has a story on spammers using mp3′s to get past filters. Not good news for an industry where trading mp3′s is a daily part of our jobs.

Sony and Japanese mobile provider KIDDI partner to make music easily playable across both platforms.

There were executive shuffles at EMI Publishing and WEA Distribution.

Napster released version 4.0 with some new features, but will anyone really care?

As Radiohead’s P2P numbers climb some consider their "pay want you want" release a failure. But is it?

The Coalition Of Independent Music Stores Top 200 Chart.

Here’s a slideshow of hot Music 2.0 sites and services.

Hypebot opens a New Music Business Bookstore.

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