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Wal-Mart offers music downloads

Wal-Mart offers music downloads
Apple’s Steve Jobs admits that he makes no money on 99-cent downloads for his iPods. None. It all goes for royalties. So will somebody please explain how Wal-Mart can justify 88-cent downloads? Are they using math from the bubble days or what?

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This entry was posted on Friday, December 19th, 2003 at 8:49 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

2 Responses to “Wal-Mart offers music downloads”

Matt C. Wilson Says:
December 22nd, 2003 at 9:11 am
This was an interesting article I read this month about Wal-Mart’s ability to set prices, make money, and crush competitors.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
Terry Says:
December 23rd, 2003 at 9:26 am
Interesting stuff, Matt, and the perspective is very useful. Thanks for the link.

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