EMusic.com has announced a deal made with Hewlett Packard which will have the company selling $3 million dollars worth of MP3's to HP through March 31, 2001.

The business to business deal is a large one for EMusic, and comes at a time when it is very much needed.

HP will be offering a free two-month subscription to EMusic in a promotion of their new rewriteable CD-R drives.

"HP research has shown that 80 percent of our customers use CD writers to burn MP3 files from the Web and create custom music CDs," said Christy Tappy, HP marketing manager.