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Off-The-Shelf Online Music Stores

Posted by timothy on from the commoditization dept.

jpkunst writes "The Chicago Sun-Times and C|Net news.com report about a new product from Loudeye Digital Media Solutions and Microsoft: pre-fab online music stores for companies who want to join the digital music goldrush. I wonder when this bubble is going to burst."

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  1. Re:what bubble? by Ab0rtRetryFail · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Quoth the semimetallic deity:
    "best i can remember is that apple's barely making any money at all off the actual music sales, let alone all the companies following" (sic)

    Apple is barely making money off it DIRECTLY, true, but Steve himself has said that the store itself is just a trojan horse so he can sell more iPods.

    I'm sure that companies looking for branding opportunities and/or a loss leader can "make money" off a music store concept. A cell phone company, for example, could use a site to promote a youth-branded cell phone service. I think Sony has proven (with the PS2) that an item can make you money while being a loss leader in and of itself. Plenty of stuff is marketed this way (razors and blades model), so perhaps the bubble will not burst at all. Just my $0.02.

  2. This is not HALF as important as... by Moryath · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Russ Feingold betraying us all and allying with spammers to beg for campaign donations.

    The Slashdot editors rejected the story, along with sending emails yelling at me for saying bad things about a Democrat.

    Typical Slashdot bullshit. What do we really expect -- CmdrTaco probably runs a spam operation from his basement.