(via Ringtonia): Ringtone sales may cross sales of CD singles this year, according to this story in Guardian. A comprehnsive story on the ringtone phenomena.
“About £40m worth of ringtones were sold last year, according to the Mobile Data Association, a trade group–largely by mobile phone users paying between £1.50 and £3.50 a time to have tunes sent to their handsets using text-messaging technology. By the end of this year, they claim, this nascent industry is set to record on income of £70m, nudging past singles sales, which the record industry forecasts will bring in only £67m.”
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