Sony opens US music download store

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Sony Connect Online Music Download Store
Launches

Sony Connect Online Music Download Store
Launches 05/04/2004 01:58 PM

MSN Music Store to Rock the Music
Download Boat

MSN Music Store to Rock the Music
Download Boat 09/02/2004 01:31 PM
Source: The Search Engine Journal - MSN has unveiled MSN Music Store, their pay per download WMP driven system which is predicted to give Apple iTunes, Napster, and RealNetworks a run for their money in the realm of legal music...

New York Sony Qualia Store Opens

New York Sony Qualia Store Opens 09/23/2004 11:08 AM

Sony's Qualia store finally opened today in Manhattan, the first retail outlet on our shores of Sony's high-end luxury brand. I had a chance to check out the store a few weeks ago and was, well, a little let down. It's not entirely Qualia's fault though; who decided the best place to stick a high-end retail presence was in the back basement corner of an existing Sony store?

More impressions after the jump.

Beatles May Get Their Own Music Download
Store

Beatles May Get Their Own Music Download
Store 06/08/2004 05:12 PM
People have pointed out in the past that one of the major limitations to online download music stores is the fact that certain popular artists have not allowed their music to be (legally) offered online yet. Exhibit number one is always the Beatles. Well, now it appears that the Beatles are finally warming up to the idea, but only if someone is willing to pay them lots and lots and lots of money for the right to set up an exclusive Beatles store. That's right, the music wouldn't be available in just any download store, but a Beatles-only music store that would be run by some other company. While the article mentions Apple iTunes as a possibility, this seems unlikely unless the Beatles and Apple patch up their legal problems first. Either way, this points out just how ridiculous all these different online stores are. Would the Beatles have ever become famous if you could only buy their music in exclusive Beatles-only record stores, which would then only play on special Beatles-only record players, that had all sorts of limitations on what you could do compared to other music you owned? The Beatles may have been great musicians, but they now appear to be greedy and shortsighted in their attempt to move into the online world.

Microsoft opens MSN Music store

Microsoft opens MSN Music store 09/01/2004 03:45 PM
Microsoft launches MSN Music a day early. Songs and albums can now be purchased on the rival to Apple's iTunes.

Microsoft opens its MSN Music Web store

Microsoft opens its MSN Music Web store 09/02/2004 04:06 AM
A day ahead of schedule, Microsoft has opened the MSN Music store. Launching the store as a "preview," the debut will be complete tomorrow when Windows Media Player 10 is introduced.

RealNetworks Pitches Music Download
Store (AP)

RealNetworks Pitches Music Download
Store (AP) 01/07/2004 02:25 PM
AP - RealNetworks Inc. is preaching digital inclusion with its launch Wednesday of a music download store and media player that support the top two audio formats.

RealNetworks Pitches Music Download
Store

RealNetworks Pitches Music Download
Store 01/07/2004 02:03 PM
AP via Daily Press Jan 7 2004 12:19PM ET

Is There Any Company At All Who Won't
Launch Their Own Music Download Store?

Is There Any Company At All Who Won't
Launch Their Own Music Download Store? 12/08/2003 03:33 PM
Okay, someone make it stop. Last week I mentioned HP's plans to open their own music download store and wondered if there was any tech company that wasn't planning their own music download store. Apparently, I was too narrow in my focus. Coca-Cola has announced plans to offer a music download store as well. It's beginning to feel like the "feature" that everyone wants to add. "Oh yeah, our website has a spinning logo, a store locator, search functionality, customer self-service, and, of course, our own music download store." Of course, this will be like every other download music store with silly limitations and bad pricing, but that's the way things go. It's difficult to see what benefit an outfit like Coke stands to gain. It's way (way) out of the core competency, and most of these stores have been shown to act as loss leaders for other products (like music players). I'm not sure how music becomes a loss leader for soda. I'm sure there will be many more similar announcements before some sense of sanity is reached, and companies start shutting down or merging all of these download stores into just a few entities. Having all of these separate stores with different restrictions does no good.

Microsoft Opens Music Store (NewsFactor)

Microsoft Opens Music Store (NewsFactor) 09/02/2004 02:06 PM
NewsFactor - Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) much-anticipated music service debuted Wednesday, with the software giant serving notice that it is ready to do battle with Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK), Napster and other digital-music providers.

iTunes Music Store Ireland Opens

iTunes Music Store Ireland Opens 01/06/2005 08:03 PM
Several members have alerted us that Apple has quietly opened the iTunes Music Store in Ireland. Price: €0.99 per song. The iTunes Music Store open...

Apple opens iTunes Music Store in
Ireland

Apple opens iTunes Music Store in
Ireland 01/06/2005 08:02 PM
Apple Computer Inc. has opened another iTunes Music Store, this time in Ireland. The store opens with over 700,000 songs and 8,000 audio books, according to information provided to MacCentral by Apple.

Music Download Store Experimenting With
Demand-Based Pricing

Music Download Store Experimenting With
Demand-Based Pricing 01/08/2004 08:41 PM
One of the very good complaints about online music stores is that they offer all songs at the exact same price - which doesn't make much sense in the market place. So, one company is trying to test that out by offer ing dynamic pricing for its downloadable songs. The songs all start at the low low price of $0.10 per song, and then fluctuate based on demand. The company is still paying the $0.67 per song price to the music labels, so they're losing money on plenty of songs - but are saying that's the cost of the experiment. After they've spent the amount they've set aside, they'll go back to the old way of pricing. There are a few problems with this. First, explicit dynamic pricing tends to get a negative reaction from consumers - who feel they get ripped off when someone else bought the same product from the same store at a lower price. More importantly, though, true market pricing isn't just a function of demand - but of supply and demand. In this case, there's an infinite supply, so we're not really talking about market pricing at all. Furthermore, this service competes against plenty of other services that charge around a dollar for songs, so there's a clear upper limit on what they can charge for any song, no matter how popular. An interesting experiment, certainly, but not necessarily indicative of market pricing.

Sony to Launch Music Download Service
for PSP

Sony to Launch Music Download Service
for PSP 02/01/2005 09:09 PM

The Register is reporting that Sony will be launching a new music service specifically for its PSP portable gaming system. The new download service is supposed to be in place by March here to coincide with the launch of Sony's player. Tony Smith speculates that the service, once in place, could just as easily be used to push video content down to the device, which doesn't have a hard drive, but can accept flash MemoryStick in 1-2GB sizes—plenty big for a couple of movies.

I think if Sony's got a shot at the iPod, the PSP is it—it can do almost everything you'd want to do while on the road, including productivity stuff (if they release a keyboard).

 Sony preps PlayStation 'music download service' [TheRegister]

Apple opens iTunes Music Store in
Ireland (MacCentral)

Apple opens iTunes Music Store in
Ireland (MacCentral) 01/06/2005 07:49 PM
MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. has opened another iTunes Music Store, this time in Ireland. The store opens with over 700,000 songs and 8,000 audio books, according to information provided to MacCentral by Apple.

Sony launches music download service:
Connect

Sony launches music download service:
Connect 05/06/2004 11:38 AM

Sony launched a noninfringing music downloading service, entering a growing market still dominated by Apple's iTunes and including a revised Napster .

Connect is based on a downloadable client , offers more than five hundred thousand songs, and offers now-traditional pricing: ninety-nine cents per song, with a subscription option. Additionally, Connect is appealing to indepedent labels for more content. As with iTunes, a digital rights management ( DRM ) application, MagicGate DRM , restricts sharing of downloaded music files. Connect's file format, ATRAC 3 , is not compatible with the popular iPod portable music player. The desktop client is available for Windows machines only.

Sony unveils music store, gadgets at CES

Sony unveils music store, gadgets at CES 01/08/2004 08:16 PM

Connect music store an 'embarrassment'
to Sony

Connect music store an 'embarrassment'
to Sony 05/09/2004 11:26 AM
Rob Pegoraro of The Washington Post says that Sony's Connect music store, which was launched on Tuesday, is "an embarrassment to the company that gave the world the Walkman."...

Sony Unveils New Online Music Store

Sony Unveils New Online Music Store 07/05/2004 02:41 PM

Net Music Firm Wippit in Download Deal
with Sony (Reuters)

Net Music Firm Wippit in Download Deal
with Sony (Reuters) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
Reuters - Sony Music, home to artists such as Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce, will start selling song downloads through European digital music store Wippit this summer, the companies said.

Sony turns to video to boost music
download service

Sony turns to video to boost music
download service 07/14/2004 09:50 AM
Connect to offer movies 'within a year'

Sony to launch music download service
for PlayStation Portable (PSP)

Sony to launch music download service
for PlayStation Portable (PSP) 02/01/2005 09:41 PM
Dvhardware.net - Sun Jan 30, 06:47 pm GMT

Sony launches 'Connect' online music
store

Sony launches 'Connect' online music
store 05/04/2004 06:24 AM
Sony Connect Inc. today formally announced the domestic launch of its new Connect online music store...

iTunes Music Store Vs. WalMart's
Download Service: A Head-To-Head
Comparison

iTunes Music Store Vs. WalMart's
Download Service: A Head-To-Head
Comparison 12/21/2003 07:07 PM
WalMart's download service would probably seem bearable if iTunes for Windows didn't exist. But unfortunately for WalMart, it does. (Bill Palmer via MyAppleMenu)

Apple opens Ginza store; Osaka store
coming in 2004

Apple opens Ginza store; Osaka store
coming in 2004 12/02/2003 12:31 AM
Apple Computer Inc. opened its first retail store in Japan, and the first outside the U.S., to journalists Thursday ahead of its official opening this Sunday. The store, in the ritzy Ginza shopping district of Tokyo, covers five floors and includes a theater that can seat 84 people, a help desk and a classroom in addition to retail space. It will sell Apple's complete line of computers and peripherals, as well as a handful of products from other vendors, such as printers, scanners and digital cameras.

Apple Store Offers iTunes Music Store
Gift Certificates

Apple Store Offers iTunes Music Store
Gift Certificates 11/10/2003 11:26 PM
(MacNN via MyAppleMenu)

Apple Store sells iTunes Music Store
Gift Certificates

Apple Store sells iTunes Music Store
Gift Certificates 11/10/2003 11:28 PM
The Apple Store is selling gift certificates good for purchasing music from the iTunes Music Store. The simple order form on the Apple Store Web site asks users to input their name, and the name and e-mail address of the recipient along with a personal message. Purchasers can select US$10 increments ranging from $10 to $200.

Is This The Announcement Australian
Music Lovers Have Waited For? iTunes
Music Store Comes To Australia?

Is This The Announcement Australian
Music Lovers Have Waited For? iTunes
Music Store Comes To Australia? 12/26/2004 08:28 PM

By Les Posen, CyberPsych Blog

Download In The Store

Download In The Store 06/25/2004 12:11 PM
Jeremiah writes "On the heels of iTunes announcement that it has sold 800,000 tracks in its first week of operation in Europe, BestBuy announces it will partner with Napster and promote it as its "leading digital music service." It's my personal belief this signals the beginning-of-the-end of the "shiny, plastic-disc" era of digital music... but I digress. The "scoop", however, is not the above stories (which you can read anywhere); they're just for context. Word on the street is a major bookseller (B&N or Borders) is planning to install WiFi in its stores *AND* provide access to libraries of digital music for download onto your device of choice. One marketing idea is to sell mp3 players in-store with a $10 gift-cert for digital downloads, or players with audio-books preloaded. To access their in-store WiFi, customers will lease a wireless NIC on an hourly basis, that's been "keyed" to only work on their network (removing the motivation to steal the nics). The hourly cost is "...somewhere around what you'd pay for a large coffee." Word is a beta will be in some west-coast stores around August-Sept." There have been similar rumors of services at certain music stores in the past, but it sounds like such talk is heating up. Of course, this does make you wonder what the purpose of the "store" is? If you can download from anywhere, why would you need to go to a store to download?

Music.Download.com Free Music is a
Winner!

Music.Download.com Free Music is a
Winner! 04/27/2004 06:56 PM
I have downloaded about a 100 tracks from Music.Download.com music section this afternoon. It is nice to be able to...

DEMO Achieves a Historical Milestone by
Presenting the First Digital Music
Certification Award to Apple iTunes
Music Store

DEMO Achieves a Historical Milestone by
Presenting the First Digital Music
Certification Award to Apple iTunes
Music Store 08/04/2004 02:36 AM
DEMO grants the first Titanium + Certification Award to the Apple iTunes Music Store on July 29, 2004. [PRWEB Aug 4, 2004]

HP to launch music store, digital music
player

HP to launch music store, digital music
player 12/03/2003 03:43 PM
Following the lead of its competitors in the PC industry, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) plans to announce a digital music player and music store along with a line of digital televisions early next year, a HP spokeswoman said Wednesday.

5 cent download store comes to life!

5 cent download store comes to life! 03/30/2005 08:30 PM

A week ago, I blogged about the 5 cent download. Soon after, I heard from Tryad, a virtual band that spans the ocean from Japan to Ohio. They decided to open their own 5 cent download store, and also offer the service to other artists for free (as long as the bandwidth costs remain manageable).

So, if you want to sell you Creative Commons licensed music, drop them a line. If you want to support artists who go CC, go buy some music. Let's build some good content, and hopefully, a good market.

Thanks Tryad for taking this idea and running with it.

Microsoft Launches Download Store

Microsoft Launches Download Store 09/01/2004 08:37 PM
Billboard Sep 2 2004 0:28AM GMT

Adobe opens e-book store

Adobe opens e-book store 12/17/2003 06:02 PM
The software maker tries to breathe life into the faltering electronic publishing concept by opening its own online store in conjunction with major publishers.

Jacksonville Apple Store Opens

Jacksonville Apple Store Opens 03/19/2005 02:29 AM

By MacMinute

Amazon opens its own search store

Amazon opens its own search store 04/15/2004 05:13 AM
Online retailer Amazon has joined the net search business, quietly launching its own search engine.

Apple Opens A Store, And It Clicks

Apple Opens A Store, And It Clicks 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
For some Apple fanatics, the queue's the thing. By Christopher Hawthorne (New York Times via MyAppleMenu)

New Apple Store Opens In Tucson Next
Week

New Apple Store Opens In Tucson Next
Week 01/16/2004 11:04 AM
Apple's newest retail store location comes to Tucson, Ariz. next week -- Apple Store La Encantada is due to open on Saturday, January 24th at 10AM. By Peter Cohen (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu)
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