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Off-The-Shelf Online Music Stores

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 17, 2003 @09:41AM 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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Easy by CrazyTalk · 2003-12-17 09:45 · Score: 2, Redundant

The bubble will burst when everyone realizes that they are not making any money from this (just like the old dot coms). It is well documented, for example, that Apple makes little to no profit off of iTunes; all the profit comes from sales of iPods.