News.com does an analysis piece following Yahoo’s buyout of Musicmatch, and comes up with a nice overview of Yahoo’s efforts till now…
Reportedly, Yahoo had opened discussions with Musicmatch as early as February and that the start-up had pressed for nearly double Tuesday’s purchase price. Yahoo executives, however, said Tuesday’s deal had come together quickly, in the last few days.
Yahoo plans to offer downloads as well as subscriptions, even if individual sales carried lower margins, according to Dave Goldberg, who runs Yahoo’s Launch subsidiary.
The sews up the big online media puzzle of what, when and how of Yahoo’s digital music plans. As the story says, the only giant left on the sidelines with Tuesday’s announcement is Amazon.com, which offers some free digital downloads on its site but has not announced any plans to sell digital music. (Some of Amazon.com’s digital media plans are disclosed here)
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