New Music Business Briefing: Napster Rises, EA And MTV Team, CD Lives & More
>>> Napster claims strong growth including the addition of 225,000 AOL Music subscribers and bright future. Stock jumps 7%.
>>> Electronic Arts, Harmonix and MTV team to develop new music centered video game "Rock Band".
>>> New Carmel study advises against XM /Sirius merger.
>>> Slate shares some convincing evidence that its not the CD that’s dead; it’s the methods used to sell it that are outdated and shares some convincing success stories including Starbucks and , EA indie retailer Silver Platters.
>>> Much aniticipated start-up Slacker has hired XM founder Lon Levin.
I really enjoyed that Slate article. I had posted about that on my site, too. Nice to see others are reading it.