7digital Intros Streaming Web Player
As its co-owner HMV (LSE: HMV) struggles to manage a fall in physical sales, digital music retailer 7digital is borrowing a trick from new m…
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Music And Movie Studios Take A Slice Of HMV To Save Disc Sales
Struggling UK entertainment retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) is giving equity worth 2.5 percent to its key suppliers – music and movie studios – to a…
HMV Sees Physical Content Crash Slowing Down, Despite Christmas Crunch
HMV’s CEO says the slowdown in plastic music and movie sales is itself slowing down – even though its Christmas was nearly a tenth worse tha…
UK’s Waterstones To Wade Into The E-Reader Market With Kindle Killer?
Waterstones — the leading UK bookseller that was recently bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut — is taking a tip from its U.S. co…
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Interview: 7digital CEO Ben Drury On HMV’s Digital Future
HMV (LSE: HMV) must move steadily away from selling physical entertainment content and toward the hardware on which digital content is consu…
Waterstones’ E-books Supply Not Threatened By HMV Sell-Off
The sale of UK bookseller Waterstones to Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut should not hamper its ability to sell electronic books.
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Where Now For Waterstone’s In The E-Book Migration?
HMV’s sale of Waterstone’s, one of the UK’s leading booksellers, removes some weight from around HMV’s neck, but doesn’t necessarily set Wat…
HMV Sells Bookseller Waterstone’s For £53 Million
HMV (LSE: HMV) has sold its Waterstone’s book chain to a fund controlled by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53 ($85.79)m.
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Can 7digital Save HMV?
Not to pile the pressure on CEO Ben Drury – but HMV’s worsening fortunes appear to suggest the increasing strategic importance of 7digital,…
HMV To Close 60 Stores After Tough Christmas
HMV (LSE: HMV) is to close 60 stores across the UK after suffering a sharp fall in sales over the crucial Christmas period.
The struggling…
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HMV Splits Digital, Physical Retail Across Two Sites
Here’s the first outcome of HMV’s part-acquisition of 7digital — HMVDigital.com, a new online store for digital music.
Curiously, the upsh…
Mobile Content Bits: Orange SMS Ads; Vodafone 360 Stats; Android MusicStation; 7digital BlackBerry
Some briefs from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona…
— Orange SMS ads: Orange is extending its interactive mobile advertising service to…
HMV Sold 80k Ebooks Over Christmas
A trading update from retailer HMV for the last five weeks ended January 2 indicates that its move into new lines of business like digital m…
HMV Sticking To Tech, Games As Sales Creep Up
HMV (LSE: HMV) promises more collect-at-store gig tickets (there’s a new partnership with Seatwave), in-store cinema screens and “further pa…
HMV Hires Amazon Exec For Continued Online Retail Push
High street music chain HMV (LSE: HMV) has a new head of online: former head of DVD buying at Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Sarah Hughes is joining th…
Interview: 7Digital CEO Ben Drury: 'HMV Deal Helps Us Fight Apple, Amazon'
Discussions to wrap online music retailer 7Digital in to HMV (LSE: HMV), which is buying half the firm for £7.7 million, began with their C…
HMV Buying Half Of Digital Music Retailer 7Digital For $12.6 Million
Entertainment retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) is buying a 50 percent stake in the increasingly well-thought-of UK online music retailer 7Digital for…
HMV Buying Half Of Digital Music Retailer 7Digital For £7.7 Million
HMV (LSE: HMV) is making a surprise announcement at its AGM today – it’s buying a 50 percent stake in the increasingly well-thought-of onlin…
Earnings: HMV Grows Online Sales, Lambasts ‘Ineffective Govt’
HMV (LSE: HMV) profit rose 18.5 percent to £44.2 million in the year to April 2009, after 4.4 percent better sales of £1.95 billion. Onlin…
A Facebook For Books? Random House Does Social Networking
Keen to tap into the UK’s enthusiasm for real-life book discussion groups, Random House today launches a social networking site to stimulate…
HMV Group Revenue Grows 4.8 Percent; Adds Orange To List of Partners
A slight sigh of relief for high street and online entertainment retailer HMV: in a trading update today ahead of its full-year results the…
HMV Launching MP3 Store, Web Streaming This Month
HMV.com will this month become the latest site to offer two of this year’s key music trends – DRM-free MP3 downloads and on-site streaming o…
Industry Moves: Lask From HMV To UMG, Sky News Changes
— Universal: After relaunching HMV.com and setting up its still-in-beta social net GetCloser, HMV (LSE: HMV) e-commerce director Gideon Las…
HMV Chief: ‘Ain’t Much We Can Do About Illegal Downloads’
Earnings: HMV Profits Climb Back On Games, Web Sales, Next-Gen Stores
A website upgrade, video games and “next-generation” stores appear to have helped HMV (LSE: HMV) turn a corner. Pre-tax profit in the year e…
HMV Trialling Social Net To Broaden Online Appeal
Music and book retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) is trialling its social networking site with 1,000 users prior to its offical launch in September, re…
Sony Offers Free Music Via Download Stores, Compensates For Connect’s Loss
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is trying to give consumers an incentive to buy its music player, instead of an iPod, this Christmas – it’s struck relation…
HMV Social Net To Debut This Side Of Christmas
HMV (LSE: HMV) will likely launch its forthcoming social network in beta form before Christmas, the entertainment retailer tells NMA. The ne…
HMV, Play.com Plan Download-To-Own Movies, Turning DVD Atoms In To Bits
Both HMV and Play.com want to launch download-to-own movie offerings – the former by the start of 2008, the latter within a few weeks, NMA s…
HMV’s First Next-Gen Stores Draw A Mixed Response
HMV’s top brass is doing the press as the entertainment retailer rolls out a new generation of high street store including digital download…
UPDATED: HMV.co.uk Lobbies Guernsey Over Tax Review's Online Sales 'Threat'
Updated: HMV’s website sales grew 100 percent year-on-year, helping sales up 5.8 percent in the 18 weeks to September 1, the retailer announ…
