A small bit of this news was buried in the NYT article over the weekend on movie studios’ increasing interest in movie download serviecs, and now Forbes.com runs with it: Target, the Minneapolis-based retail chain is close to a rollout of a digital music subscription service, according to this story. (The NYT story mentioned about Target.com being a potential distributor for online movies too..)
It will be a downloads and subscription service, powered by Loudeye. It will also have the portable subscription service, and will likely be priced somewhere between the $6.99 charged by Yahoo Music Unlimited and the $14.95 charged by RealNetworks and others for their portable services.
Wal-Mart has been selling digital music downloads since March 2004, but with little success.
As background, Target.com site is powered/run by Amazon…so this will be a potential break in strategy for the retail company.
More as warranted…
Subscriber content
?
Subscriber content comes from Gigaom Research, bridging the gap between breaking news and long-tail research. Visit any of our reports to learn more and subscribe.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Comments have been disabled for this post