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Category Archives: subscription
Google vs Apple = Happy Major Music Labels
Google is talking with music labels on their plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its Android-based mobile users to play songs wherever they are. The music industry hopes to benefit from the competition … Continue reading
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Digital Distribution Boosts PC Gaming Revenue
from GameSpy According to a new report by the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), worldwide PC gaming software revenue rose 3% in 2009 to $13.1 billion, fueled by growth in the Asia Pacific region and the growing popularity of digital distribution … Continue reading
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Sam Phillips goes subscription route with fans
By this fall, singer-songwriter Sam Phillips will have released five EPs and a full-length studio album. She’s taken the step of making her music available through The Long Play, a subscription-only service on her website that gives members access to … Continue reading
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Sony opens Older Catalogue to eMusic
Sony Music Entertainment has agreed to make its back catalog of songs available on eMusic, one of the largest music retailers on the Web. eMusic has some 400,000 subscribers who pay a monthly fee to download a certain number of … Continue reading
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In Switch, Magazines Think About Raising Prices
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD, New York Times Published: April 12, 2009 Fifty-eight cents. For that, you could get one-eighth of a Starbucks latte. It is also what subscribers paid, on average, for each issue of Time magazine last year. This is … Continue reading
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Despite iTunes Accord, Music Labels Still Fret
By TIM ARANGO Published: February 1, 2009 New York Times Last month the music industry and Apple, long uneasy partners, seemed a picture of harmony when they agreed on new terms for pricing on iTunes, Apple’s online music store. Behind … Continue reading
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Music Publishing: A Bright Spot In The Media Business
Los Angeles-based music publisher Bug Music owns the rights to more than 250,000 songs. Bug Music doesn’t need customers buying them to profit. Instead, Bug just needs people to like them. Music publishers are part of the $7 billion music … Continue reading
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Mourning Old Media’s Decline
By DAVID CARR New York Times Published: October 28, 2008 The news that Google settled two longstanding suits with book authors and publishers over its plans to digitize the world’s great libraries suggests that some level of détente could be … Continue reading
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Internet, cellphone: ‘the new essentials’
Belt-tightening consumers more likely to cut back on movie tickets, DVDs and top-tier cable, study finds GRANT ROBERTSON – Globe and Mail October 23, 2008 Amid the threat of tough economic times, Internet and cellphones have become almost like heat … Continue reading
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iLike Opens Full-Length Streams, Net-Targeted Concert Listings
From Digital Music News iLike came out swinging this morning with a number of site enhancements, including the integration of full-length streaming and an innovative concert listing service. The song playback option activates an earlier-announced deal with Rhapsody, though a … Continue reading
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Lala tries again: a Dime a Song – streamed
The well-financed Lala.com is updating its digital model by introducing a cut-rate, streaming service. Lala first entered the music scene with an online CD trading marketplace that allowed users to optimize their collections by posting and picking discs. Then last … Continue reading
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Access the entire NAXOS catalogue for $19.95/year
For classical music lovers, this is a sensational idea. For $19.95 A YEAR, you have full access to the entire NAXOS catalogue (at www.naxos.com), which arguably is the world’s largest classical music label. While Naxos doesn’t have the star power … Continue reading
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Canada’s Copyright Board adds a few pennies to songwriter incomes
Some good news for Canadian songwriters and composers, along with the usual bleating from online stores and record labels ( and spun in the press) that this ruling cuts into their slim to non-existent profits. After many years of deliberation, … Continue reading
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Times and WSJ to give up subscription model
from Toronto’s Globe and Mail The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal will abandon their subscription websites and may now influence a broad – and irreversible shift – across the newspaper industry itself. The Times officially walked away … Continue reading
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DFC: Digital Distribution Making Big Gains
Digital distribution and the online sale of virtual items will account for 40 percent of the forecasted $13.1 billion worldwide online gaming market by 2012, according to a new report from market researcher DFC Intelligence. According to the firm, the … Continue reading
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