Virgin U.K. offers Apple iPod

Apple Computer said it has started selling its iPod digital music player at Virgin Megastores and Virgin Xpress stores in the United Kingdom. "We?re thrilled to be working with Virgin Retail to bring the iPod to even more customers," Apple UK sales director Mark Rogers said in a statement on the company's Web site.

The company said at last week's analyst meeting that it has significantly expanded the iPod's distribution for this holiday season as it expects a sequential jump in sales over last quarter's record sales of 336,000 iPods. Apple said it has 8,000 points of distribution for the iPod worldwide, twice as many as it had for last year's prime buying season.