“Despite the travails of the music industry, with CD sales still slumping and record executives still suing suspected Internet...
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On Saturday, I swung by Best Buy to see what was on sale. Call it market research. The post Xmas sales continue, with a surprising number...
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AP reports: The number of U.S. households illegally downloading music from P2P networks is increasing, not decreasing, as the RIAA would...
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Decommoditizing Commodity Products: We’ve been looking at price competition for retail music sales; I normally care very little...
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We previously discussed how “Music Sales were Rising on Aggressive Discounting, Price Competition and an Improving Economy.”...
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In the most under-reported story this year, music sales rose this past quarter. For the first time in nearly 3 years, pre-recorded music...
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Here’s the best overview on the legal situation, from the always interesting GMSV: “Silly.” That’s how a U.S....
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Does the improving U.S. economy have anything to do with this? How about a slew of new and critically well reviewed CDs? The availability...
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The 99ยข Solution: Time magazine picked Apple’s iTunes as the “coolest new technology” in the music category for 2003....
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Upbeat, from the Economist online. “To glimpse the future, big music companies should look not at iTunes’ encouraging numbers...
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