The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin – Blog Maverick – www.blogmaverick.com _ (
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People will use music stores (online or on earth) that let them discover music: samples, freebies, or just old school knowledgeable staff (remember that?)
http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php?m=20030906/
http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/2004/03/20/piracy-as-a-sales-tool/
I agree totally that access to all the tracks in a given store for mp3/ogg/aac/lossless distribution would be cheap and super-popular: any progressive college town (say, Seattle or Vancouver) would be a great place to put one.
Eventually, I could see it as an unmanned kiosk in the corner of some other shop: an RJ45 in the back and a couple of firewire/USB dongles in front with a login screen and a card swipe is all you’d need.
(I didn’t realize on first gloss that he described the exact thing I did in the preceding graf . . . )
So how much per song? $.25? Or are we wedded to the $.99 price point from iTMS?