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Napster app available for iOS

by Dave Caolo (Sep 20th, 2010)

Raise your hand if you remember gorging yourself at the feast that was Napster. After tough times and much retooling, Napster is now available for iOS devices (free) with a per-month subscription model. Here's how it works. For US$10 per month, users can stream and cache any of the 10 million ...

Macmillan trying to sell readers 'hardcover' ebooks

by TJ Luoma (Mar 2nd, 2010)

John Siracusa drew my attention to an article by Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price, in which he says that the company actually plans to keep their hardcover/paperback separation even while selling ebooks. While new hardcover ebooks will sell for $14.99 and ...

TUAW Review: Napster MP3 store

by Mat Lu (May 22nd, 2008)

As we noted yesterday, Napster has now rolled out the world's largest DRM-free MP3 store. In the spirit of the Amazon MP3 review we ran last year, I thought I would take Napster for a spin to see how the service works from a Mac-user's perspective. The first thing to note is that this is a download ...

Napster MP3 store to rival iTunes store with 6 million DRM-free tracks

by Mat Lu (May 21st, 2008)

Napster has announced that it is now offering DRM-free MP3 downloads that play on the iPod family and the iPhone. Furthermore, the library is 6 million songs which puts it in the same league as the iTunes Store, and indeed far eclipses the latter in DRM-free offerings. The MP3s are 256kbps and cost ...

AOL Music Now closing doors, porting customers to Napster

by David Chartier (Jan 12th, 2007)

AOL's Music Now, yet another iTunes Store competitor, has announced they are closing their doors in favor of lending the space to Napster (disclosure reminder: we're an AOL property). In a press release this morning, Napster announced it is partnering with AOL to integrate their services into the ...

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 ...

Xtorrent Beta 1

by Scott McNulty (Sep 18th, 2006)

You kids and your bittorrents. Why, I remember when I was in college and Napster was all the rage (this was when Napster was new, and still cool). We had one source for our downloads and we liked it. Now everyone is bittorrenting files to and fro (only open source software and the like, I am sure), ...

Wh- What? Metallica in iTunes!

by Dave Caolo (Jul 25th, 2006)

Forget the bluetooth Mighty Mouse, today's huge news is that Metallica's catalog has been added to the iTunes Music Store [iTunes link]. You may remember how vehemently anti-download this band has been since the Napster days. Either the guys have mellowed a bit (isn't that what this movie was ...

Napster is now free... kinda

by Scott McNulty (May 1st, 2006)

The big news of the day regarding your local digital music purveyor is that Napster has announced that it is now free. Sort of. After you register for an account you can listen to any of their 2 million tracks (in their entirety) five times, the sixth time you are prompted to either buy the track ...

Long-time holdouts Red Hot Chili Peppers in the iTunes Music Store

by Dave Caolo (Mar 21st, 2006)

Do you remember when Napster was huge (about ten years ago), and digital file sharing was on everyone's minds? Metallica and The Red Hot Chili Peppers were sort of leading the anti-p2p charge. Several years later, when the iTunes Music Store demonstrated that the online distribution of music could ...

Napster points finger at Microsoft for iTunes market share

by David Chartier (Mar 2nd, 2006)

Napster's CEO, Chris Gorog, has pointed a finger at Microsoft for the dominance of the iTunes iPod combination in the digital music market. The frustrated CEO is upset with Microsoft's DRM technology and its relationship with hardware manufacturers, commenting on what many feel is the root of iPod ...