800-lb Gorilla Tests Download Market

Written by Phillip Winn
Published December 18, 2003

It won't officially debut until next year, but Wal-Mart is testing their online music store now. It required Windows and WMP9, which is a strike against it, but it does have one very important point in its favor:

Each track is only 88 cents.

Music Downloads At Wal-mart

Phillip Winn is the Technical Director for BC Magazine, which leaves him far too little time to write, which makes every article he writes that much more precious.
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#1 — December 18, 2003 @ 14:25PM — Soundacious [URL]

The way this bandwagon is being jumped on, you'd think there was actually some MONEY to be made in this. Apparently music download services are the next Tulip-mania.

#2 — December 18, 2003 @ 17:56PM — TDavid [URL]

Cool, thanks for posting about this, Phillip! I've got it bookmarked to check out.

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