Online Music Shakeout

Mar 30th, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

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Scrambling over tight profit margins, online music stores are merging or selling themselves off. Remember that the reason iTunes grabbed so much market share is because their focus is on selling hardware — the music is a break-even proposition for them at best. Even though you can place your music on these services with the help of folks like CDBaby, you’re still responsible for driving your listeners to find your stuff. And you can still sell MP3s on your own site, too.

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One Response to “Online Music Shakeout”

  1. The Mediaburn Radio Weblog Says:
    March 30th, 2004 at 10:37 pm

    Shake It Up

    Online Music Shakeout .

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