New Business Models for Online Music Merchants

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The past few years haven’t been pretty for music retailers competing with Apple, which is dominating the scene with its iPod and iTunes e-commerce site. Online music retailers are tuning up their businesses to compete...

So what do retailers do when the Internet and a single company team up to turn their market upside down? Anything they can—as illustrated by today’s scramble for a viable business model by online music merchants. There are new strategies aplenty, including competing on price, pushing subscriptions, giving the music away free in hopes of making money in other ways and being more user-friendly than Apple...

full article: http://www.internetretailer.com/article.asp?id=27944