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eMusic calls bundled music anticompetitive

by Erica Sadun (Mar 24th, 2008)

Over at the Guardian, music retailer eMusic has weighed in on those rumors about Apple bundling iPods with free iTunes access. It would be "anti-competitive behavio(u)r by a monopolist," the Guardian quotes David Pakman, eMusic's CEO. The plan, which not a lot of people seem to believe is entirely ...

eMusic gives Steve free subscription, tries to cash in on iPhone-mania

by Scott McNulty (Jun 25th, 2007)

I don't know about you, but I just can't get enough iPhone related news! The latest company trying to hitch their wagon to the iPhone star is eMusic. eMusic, you might know, is an online purveyor of digital music downloads (they are the second biggest, right behind iTunes) but the cool thing about ...

eMusic tops 300k users, now 2nd to iTunes

by Erica Sadun (Apr 17th, 2007)

eMusic announced today that its subscriber base has now topped 300,000 users. This makes it the second largest online music service after iTunes according to this Sys-Con report. The eMusic catalog contains 2.5 million tracks from over 13,000 labels which are distributed in MP3 format without DRM. ...

Digital Music Vendor Showdown

by Erica Sadun (Dec 20th, 2006)

Wired has a good article up about the various digital music vendors: Urge, Napster, Rhapsody, eMusic and iTunes. They compare and rate the services. In the end, they chose iTunes as their editor's pick, pointing out that although iTunes has no subscription plan at this time, its combination of ...

eMusic hits No. 2 in digital music sales, thanks iPod

by David Chartier (Jul 31st, 2006)

eMusic, a seemingly small-time digital music service that sells DRM-free MP3s of independent artists, has quietly overtaken other big name rivals such as RealNetworks, Yahoo! and even Napster for the #2 spot in digital music sales. The company attributes its success largely in part to the iPod's ...

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