http://blog.hecker.org/2006/12/20/amazon-versus-emusic/ Trying to unite civility and truth in a few long blog posts Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:12:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.hecker.org/2006/12/20/amazon-versus-emusic/#comment-1106 Swindleeeee!!!!! » Hypebot’s advice for Amazon Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:06:08 +0000 http://swindleeeee.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/amazon-versus-emusic/#comment-1106 [...] This advice seems overly short-term: Sure, Amazon might get some initial press for being the first major US store (note the qualifiers!) to enter the digital music market with major label MP3 offerings, but this does not a long-term strategy make. I think it needs to be coupled with something else, and I think that that something else is Amazon having a clear and public goal to be the market-leading commercial provider of digital music in the MP3 format–a goal which in essence amounts to supplanting eMusic as the perceived number two player behind the iTunes Store. As I’ve written previously I think this is a realistic goal, and achieving it would pay big dividends for Amazon in terms of market credibility, just as it has for eMusic. Offer labels and consumers variable pricing. [...] [...] This advice seems overly short-term: Sure, Amazon might get some initial press for being the first major US store (note the qualifiers!) to enter the digital music market with major label MP3 offerings, but this does not a long-term strategy make. I think it needs to be coupled with something else, and I think that that something else is Amazon having a clear and public goal to be the market-leading commercial provider of digital music in the MP3 format–a goal which in essence amounts to supplanting eMusic as the perceived number two player behind the iTunes Store. As I’ve written previously I think this is a realistic goal, and achieving it would pay big dividends for Amazon in terms of market credibility, just as it has for eMusic. Offer labels and consumers variable pricing. [...]

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