Digital music industry challenged to follow fans' lead
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InfoWorld - At the Consumer Electronics Show this year, it's clear that consumers are making choices that are driving industry changes, and nowhere is that more evident than in the digital music business.
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Stick together, advises IODA chief Must the digital music revolution screw the little guy? Kevin Arnold, founder of major digital distributor IODA, thinks not. Arnold issued a warning for labels not to do direct deals with internet companies that can't or won't pay them - or only pay them peanuts.â¦
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It&#39;s just another sign that a major battle for the hearts, minds and dollars of young, tech-minded consumers will be fought over music -- who sells it and who gets to play it on what portable gadgets.
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Creative Technology is firing a shot across Apple's digital music bow.
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Apple may dominate the MP3 market, but other players have their fans and laudable features.
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The U.S. music industry is becoming more open-minded about working with online music stores from the tiniest start-up to Amazon.com, hoping to boost digital music sales and erode the dominance of Apple Inc's iTunes.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The music industry continues to build bridges between the digital and physical world.
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LOS ANGELES - Record labels have consistently rebuffed calls by digital music executives to sell songs online without copy-protection restrictions. But now that the CEO of the predominant online music retailer has joined the chorus, will labels pay attention?
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Rival technologies that baffle consumers will run more companies out of business in the nascent music download market than will head-to-head competition, one of the lead creators of MP3 playback technology warned on Wednesday.
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Though digital music has come a long way, today's online music stores still have significant problems. Here's my fix-it wish list.
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By Kevin Maney  The online digital music business stinks.    ITunes, Rhapsody, Zune Store, Napster -- you name it. They're all failures.    The hype has people believing otherwise.
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Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O may  have sold more than twice as many of its iPod digital music  players in its most recent quarter than its signature Mac  computers, but competitors are turning the up the heat in the  nascent online music industry.
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Digital music sales have doubled in the last year, but overall music industry sales are falling.
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The symbiotic relationship between the major record labels and online music companies is as testy as ever at a digital music conference. Eliot Van Buskirk reports from New York.
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In the beginning, there was Napster. And the lords of the music industry looked upon it and declared war. And the hordes of music fans fought back, using technology to the utmost in order to continually stay
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Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are to crank up the volume in the digital music business, bringing a new degree of competition to a market that has been dominated by Apple Computer.
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Several new online services  have emerged with their own takes on digital music discovery.