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Sprint Launchings Music to Mobile Downloads
* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us that Sprint Nextel is looking to take a bite out of Apple's iTunes pie with the upcoming release of the first music download service direct to mobile phones. The service offers the ability to get the song directly to your phone in addition to a high quality version that you can download to your PC. From the article: "The Sprint Music Store will enable subscribers of the third-largest mobile carrier to choose from 250,000 songs from all four major music labels and download them for $2.50 each using phones from either Samsung Electronics or Sanyo Electric."
That pretty much ensures that all best music is there!
No wonder they're charging $2.50. If they only dealt with labels then this shows what the labels are going to push Apple for next year.
The situation is getting riper and riper for musicians to tell these folks to go jump and take the primary seat in dealing with digital distrubutors. Sooner or later it will happen.
If labels had any sense they would be charging nickels and dimes for very lightly DRM'd downloads to hold that market.