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Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003 1:10am
BuyMusic.com offers more songs for cheaper |
A new online music service, BuyMusic.com, is expected to launch later today, offering a catalog of more than 300,000 songs from the five major record labels in Windows Media Format, according to the Associated Press: "BuyMusic is charging 70 cents for individual song downloads -- 9 cents lower than MusicNow, which previously had the lowest per song price. It's also undercutting competitors' price for a full album download at $7.95. The iTunes' service charges $9.99 for most full albums...[However,] BuyMusic suffers from some of the same licensing drawbacks that the other PC-based digital music retailers have," as it was unable to obtain uniform licensing rights from the record labels and artists.
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