Amazon Adds mp3′s and Movies to Affiliate Program

In what could be a very profitable scenario for music-centric (or long tail local review) sites, Amazon is adding it’s growing catalogue of mp3′s and movies to its venerable affiliate program.

ReadWrite/Web has more details:

Specifically, the thousands of full-length movie downloads offered by
the year-old Amazon Unbox and the millions of DRM-free MP3 songs in the
new Amazon MP3 service will be purchasable through affiliate links
anywhere on the web. There’s a whole lot that you can buy and sell
through affiliate links to Amazon, but until now digital assets like
movies and DRM-free MP3s were not among them.

While iTunes is still the goliath of digital music buying and selling, chinks are starting to appear in its armor as consumers become more tech savvy and realize the potential shortfalls of DRM’d music available in iTunes.  Plus, the Amazon mp3 service is very easy to use and integrates nicely with existing Amazon accounts.