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Music sales via YouTube

YouTube intros links to buy music featured in videos.

YouTube has introduced “click-to-buy” links on some of its partner videos so that users can have one-click access to the media featured in the video. With this feature, users can buy music or video games directly from some YouTube pages, and in the future, this feature could be extended to other videos, too.

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[Ars Technica]

Hopefully this will get extended to independent musicians soon. Some of the musicians I know put videos up there, and this can be a big help to their career–for example, Terra Naomi got a big boost from her YouTube videos. It would be great if people could go directly from those videos to their music in iTunes.

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