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amazon is entering the streaming music business coincidentally is one of the only industries the company hasn't publicly pissed off this week I'm Brian Bishop coming to you from e3 2014 and this is 90 seconds on the verge Amazon calls a prime music and as the name suggests will be bundled in the company's pre-existing $99 annual membership program prime already includes free two-day shipping Kindle eBook lending and Prime instant video the last one has been growing substantially as of late but while Prime Music is a value-add it's not at the level of its competition just yet Amazon promises 1 million songs will be available at launch for streaming that number is super tiny compared to Spotify and beats each of which claimed to have around 20 million tracks prime music will also have hundreds of curated playlists if you just can't decide on your own try music has one glaring omission right now and that's universal it's the largest music company in the world and it means know you to know Taylor Swift's know jay-z and know Kanye discussions are said to be ongoing but Universal is just one of many major companies that Amazon has been beefing with that's not even remotely the most public spamming Amazon and book publisher has chef have been a very public ugly feud lately it seems Amazon is now purposely delaying customer orders of hash hat books by weeks affected authors include James Patterson Malcolm Gladwell and Stephen Colbert Amazon seems to be plying similar tactics to Warner Brothers it's no longer taking pre-orders for movies like The Winter's Tale and the lego movie for more on Amazon check out the verge coming up tomorrow what begins at the 90th second shell in there and what ends there shall begin once more here you make it again it's time to wake up Brian wake up