Exclusive Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam and Coldplay Tracks Headline Amazon.com's New Free Music Downloads Area

Business Wire, Feb 28, 2001

-- The Roots, "Caravan" (featuring D'Angelo on keyboards)

-- Kenny Burrell, "C Jam Blues" (featuring Medeski Martin &

Wood)

-- Tracks from artists on dozens of independent labels, including

the following:

-- Epitaph: Tom Waits, Rancid, Offspring, NOFX

-- Hannibal: Nick Drake, Taj Mahal, Cubanismo!

-- Kill Rock Stars: Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, Bratmobile

-- Rounder: Alison Krauss, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Natalie

MacMaster, Johnny Adams

-- Moonshine: Carl Cox, Omar Santana, Dave Aude

-- Thrill Jockey: Freakwater, Tortoise, The Sea and Cake

-- Free downloads from up-and-coming artists:

Many of the emerging artists featured in Amazon.com's Free

Downloads community, including Stone Coyotes, Nadine,

Perla Batalla and Phil Roy, are members of Amazon.com's

Advantage program, which enables independent musicians to

market and sell their music to Amazon.com's more than 30

million customers worldwide.

In addition to the Red Hot downloads and tipping capability mentioned above, beginning today Amazon.com's Music store will host an online auction featuring Red Hot one-of-a-kind autographed prints, photo books, CDs and other works by well-known actors and musicians, such as Lenny Kravitz, Chris Rock, Drew Barrymore, Sean Penn and R.E.M.

Liquid Audio, Inc. (Nasdaq:LQID) is providing digital music delivery services for free promotional downloads offered through Amazon.com's Free Music Downloads area, including encoding, hosting, delivery and reporting services. Amazon.com and Liquid Audio have been working together for nearly two years on the distribution of free promotional downloads due to Liquid's simple and logical customer experience.

Amazon.com's Free Music Downloads community can be accessed via its Music store, www.amazon.com/music or by going directly to www.amazon.com/music-downloads. For more information about the upload program, or to join, visit: www.amazon.com/music-uploads. For more information about Amazon.com Advantage, visit www.amazon.com/advantage/music. For more information about the Amazon.com Red Hot auction, visit the Amazon.com Red Hot Store, located at www.amazon.com/music-redhot.> About Amazon.com's Music Store

Amazon.com is the No. 1 online music store, located at www.amazon.com/music. From alternative to zydeco, hip-hop to bebop, Amazon.com's Music store offers its customers everything from the latest releases to hard-to-find gems in any music genre. Amazon.com offers more than 300,000 new and used CDs, vinyl LPs and cassettes, at everyday low prices. In addition, the Amazon.com Music store features thousands of reviews by Amazon.com's expert staff editors and nationally known critics; song samples; thousands of free, full-length downloads from major-label and independent artists; artist interviews; lists of essential albums by style, artist, composer and year; helpful introductions to classical, jazz, and international music; thousands of bestseller lists; and personalized music recommendations.

About Amazon.com, Inc.

Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries) is the Internet's No. 1 retailer. Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection, along with online auctions and free electronic greeting cards. Amazon.com seeks to be the world's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. Amazon.com lists more than 28 million unique items in categories such as electronics, kitchen products, books, music, DVDs, videos, camera and photo items, toys, software, computer and video games, tools and hardware, lawn and patio items, and wireless products. Through Amazon.com zShops, any business or individual can sell virtually anything to Amazon.com's more than 30 million cumulative customers, and with Amazon.com Payments, sellers can accept credit card transactions, avoiding the hassles of offline payments.