A public beta version of Amazon’s music download store, Amazonmp3, is now out. The best part about it is that the music is DRM-free.
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and DRM-free music can be played on any mp3 player, computer, or other device. The presence of DRM on music sold from iTunes is what prevented me from buying much music at all from Apple. Even when iTunes started offering DRM-free version of some songs (sold at a premium of $1.29 per song, but also in a higher bit rate), I still did not buy – mainly because it was not immediately obvious to me where these version could be found on iTunes and I was too lazy to find out.
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Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.
This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.