Amazon wants to be in the podcasting game. The company announced today that it is going to be carrying 70,000 podcasts within its Amazon Music service, available to both the free and paid subscribers. It faces fierce competition from Spotify and Apple, which have both built far larger libraries of podcasts along with exclusive titles. Given the head start that those two have in podcasting, it’s...
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