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Politweets — ... receiving BarbaraHoward's updates. Already using Twitter from your phone? Click here . [image] BarbaraHoward New blog: Barack Obama Dreams from My Father Interview: Barack Obama Dreams From My Father.. http://tinyurl.com/5uzx2m 1 minute ago from twitterfeed looking thru the pantry & freezer....thinking sweet/sour umm "something" headed to the kitchen to experiment. about 7 hours ago from web @ TheJennTaFur checking out www.emusic.com - maybe you have sentimental attachment to school books :) about 7 hours ...

Ex-Googler, GameSpy, eMusic Vets Get $8.2 Million To Launch Crispy Gamer
paidContent — ... editorial director John Keefer and Chris Hoerenz, former CMO of eMusic. Crispy Gamer offers gaming news, reviews, and community features (currently in beta), and has a noteworthy—albeit a possibly costly—ad strategy: it won't accept advertising from game publishers. Heldman, the CEO, says that it's to make sure that there's no perceived bias for or against particular game titles or developers. Of course tons of competitors of every stripe exist. ...

Layoffs Roundup: Revision3; 60 Frames; Sugar; eMusic and Inform Technologies
paidContent — ... and MP3-subscription service eMusic felt the economic sting as well. Lastly, Inform Technologies is also on the layoffs list, a notable addition because it powers the content linking and discovery features of various online publications (including The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) and CNN), a signal that the larger companies' cost-cutting measures are starting to impact fringe players that provide them with extra services. -- eMusic : Music subscription service eMusic is laying off about 10 percent of its staff, MediaMemo reports. ...

Give the gift of music, e-books and more
Download Squad — ... of the best music-subscription services on the planet. Featuring a gigantic catalog (over 4 million tracks) and awesome search, Rhapsody is a full-featured subscription service. You can also shop for MP3's. There is a free trial account which limits you to 25 tracks per month, but you'll probably want to gift Unlimited (all music, browser-based playback only, $12.99/mo.) or To Go (all music, including portable music players, $14.99/mo.). Other subscription contenders: eMusic and Lala Streaming awesomeness: AOL Radio and Pandora ...

eMusic Tries Out A New Recommendation Engine; Redesigns Homepage
TechCrunch — ... Indie music download subscription service eMusic is getting an overhaul. Individual artist an dalbum pages already have more of an AJaxy feel and incorporate YouTube videos and Flickr photos. On Friday, its homepage switched over to a new design centered around a new recommendation engine powered by ...

Daily Tidbits: Coldplay is hot, Friendfeed is multilingual
Webware.com — Last.fm has released its list of the top 10 albums, artists, and tracks for 2008 based on number of listeners. Coldplay was the big winner this year, taking the top spot for album of the year. It also had a whopping six tracks (including the top two) featured in the year's top ...

Free Holiday Tunes from eMusic
Cult of Mac — ... is into the gifting spirit this season, offering a 12 song set of Christmas tunes available to download for free. ...

So you just got an iPod nano -- now what?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Holidays, iPod nano All day on December 25, TUAW presents "Now What?" We've got first steps and recommendations for all the Apple gifts you (hopefully!) found under the tree today. Happy holidays! If you're a iPod veteran, send a link to this post to the ...

Will iTunes Changes Hurt Competing Music Sellers?
Bits — Apple’s announcement on Tuesday that it would drop anticopying measures from all of the music in its iTunes store is likely to shake up the digital music business in more ways than one. Amazon’s MP3 store , along with smaller-scale operations like eMusic and Other Music , have been offering alternatives to iTunes for tech-savvy audiophiles who were interested in purchasing songs without digital rights management software, or D.R.M. The software imposes restrictions on how music files can be shared and played. Josh Madell, a co-owner of Other Music, ...

Four Approaches to Music Recommendations: Pandora, Mufin, Lala, and eMusic
ReadWriteWeb — Thanks to MP3s and the Internet, we now have millions of songs readily available to us with the click of a button, but, paradoxically, this has often made it even harder to discover new music to listen to. Every online music store and every social network that focuses on online music, however, now features some kind of music recommendation system, and some services like Pandora or Slacker Radio are indeed nothing else but highly sophisticated music discovery engines. In this post, we will look at the different approaches behind some of the most popular music recommendation and discovery ...

Why do you guys make it so hard to take my money?
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... Then you have eMusic which is billed as the cooler alternative to iTunes which it might be but I’m not going to be forking over $11.99 per month for a membership; especially since if I don’t make use of my download allowance for the month it is gone – no roll-over for ya sucker. Guess what eMusic – none of my money for you either. ...

Please, World, Like Subscription Music, Won’t You?
Technologizer — ... subscription music seems like it makes sense: It lets you spend $15 to get access to unlimited music, versus spending the same amount or thereabouts to buy one album. But consumers are simply nowhere near as interested as the industry thinks they should be. Greg mentions one factor in his story: The fact that people appear to want to own their music rather than renting it. I think another big factor is copy protection. It’s neatly mandatory for subscription music (eMusic is the only subscription service that doesn’t lock up its tracks). And even if you can ...

TrialPay: Works for People With More Time Than Money
E-Commerce Times — ... iTunes software called "iPod Access" from Findley Designs by signing up for a free trial of eMusic's song download service. That proved more irritating, since I was also prompted to try eMusic's audio-book service and subscriptions to several magazines. I also scored a movie ticket from ...

iTunes Music: Now Up To 30 Percent More Expensive
Mashable! — ... , a music download competitor, has launched a promotional campaign, offering free downloads and a vague promise of cheaper prices. ...

Could e-books help Quinn Bradlee?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Could e-books and related tech help Quinn Bradlee, the son of two famous Washington journalists? And how? Speak up. Meanwhile, below, is a review of Quinn’s new hardback, A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures—also available for the Kindle, the Sony Reader and, let’s hope, other formats. iTunes, Audible and eMusic.com offer audio editions. – D.R. What if your father is Ben Bradlee, your ...

Amazon, iTunes, Other? Where Do You Buy Your Digital Music? [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... If the music I want is on eMusic, I get it there. However, since eMusic is almost completely Indie labels and artists, it’s not uncommon for what I want to be unavailable. ...

DRM-free audio books from eMusic
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Received the following press release from eMusic. I’m always happy to reprint anything that highlights no DRM: eMusic, the internet’s corner music store and the first retailer to sell digital audiobooks in the MP3 format, today announced that its audiobook catalogue has surpassed 7,000 titles Audiobook fans can now purchase DRM-free versions of Alexander McCall Smith books, including The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, William P. Young’s The Shack, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and No Country for Old ...

eMusic Gets Its First Major - But Only For The Long Tail
paidContent — ... Eleven years after it opened up shop, eMusic has finally won its first major-label repertoire, in the shape of Sony ( ...

Sony To Offer eMusic Its Older Catalog
WebProNews Feed — ... eMusic subscribers pay $11.99 a month for its basic plan to download 30 songs or a about 40 cents a song, well below prices on iTunes. Songs are in the MP3 format and are free from copying restrictions. ...

eMusic to get Sony Music songs
SlashGear — eMusic announced today that they will be offering up songs from Sony Music, with one important stipulation attached. The songs have to be more than two years old in order to be added to the online music store. So, what does this mean for subscribers? You’ll find that your monthly fees increase a bit and that the number of downloads you can make a month is reduced. By Q3, several classic songs will be added to the store from the likes of Johnny Cash and Billy Joel. Currently, the basic plan is $12/month which allots you 24 ...

Ten Years After Napster, Musicians Are Still Getting Screwed
ReadWriteWeb — ... Let us introduce a long, thoughtful pause in honor of Napster's $5-for-5 subscription plan, which is as unoriginal as it is a bad deal. It's a mashup of two models that Gorgog just stated didn't work, and when compared to Emusic's and other sites' subscription plans (about $12 a month gets you about 30 MP3s) and Last.fm/Imeem/Pandora's free streaming offerings, it seems very financially stupid - especially considering that Napster introduced the now commonly held expectation that all this media should be free. Gorog states he sees a future of subscription plans for unlimited, ...

eMusic and Sony—one step forward, one big step back
Macworld — ... once again proves the old adage: There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. I’ve made no bones about my love for indie music download service eMusic in the past. I think it’s great, and I’ve been a subscriber for years. So I rejoiced earlier this week when I learned that eMusic had struck a deal with Sony to publish its back-catalog of music two years old and older—until I discovered that eMusic had changed the terms of my subscription. eMusic has, since its inception, focused on distributing independently published music. eMusic claims to be the second-largest digital music ...

Universal To Give Away Unlimited MP3s Via UK ISP
paidContent — ... eMusic already offers a limited number of mostly indie MP3s via monthly subscription, while other truly-unlimited monthly services tend to come with DRM locks. Like eMusic, Virgin's entry-level option will only offer a few monthly downloads, but the full service will offer unlimited unprotected downloads and streaming each month. The monthly fee will be less than the cost of two albums, we understand - in effect, Universal is massively marking down the cost of its repertoire (at least to heavy users) in order to regain revenue from the majority, illegal ...

eMusic Users Revolt Over Latest Changes
ReadWriteWeb — ... , one of the world's largest subscription-based music retailers, features music from Sony's catalog in its store. Most users on eMusic subscribe to the service because of the eclectic selection of independent music it offers, and very few users were excited to hear that eMusic was going to make major changes to its service, including ...

The Day the eMusic Died
Internet Evolution: — I’ve been an eMusic subscriber since I responded to one of those “75 free download” promos back in 2005. It has always struck me as one of the three or four best-run commercial sites on the Web, offering genuine value, convenience, community, and top-quality content, while almost entirely avoiding intrusive annoyances like DRM, pop-up ads, and big-footed behavioral marketing. Recently, however, eMusic announced a troubling series of changes to its pricing, its terms of service, and apparently its whole business model. This is not only disappointing to me as a long-time ...

Win a MacBook, iPod touch in iSkin's Back-to-School Contest
Gearlog — ... today, enter to win a MacBook, iPod touch, Mighty Mouse, ProTouch Vibes for MacBook, ProTouch for Mighty Mouse, iSkin touch Vibes for iPod Touch, iSkin Soho case for MacBook, and Cerulean F1 + TX Bluetooth set. Now that's a grand prize all right! There will also be ten second-place winners, who will each receive an iSkin eGift Card valued at $50. You'll be a winner even if you don't score these prizes: All who enter will get 50 free downloads from eMusic. Entries are accepted from now until 11:59 p.m. EST on September 15, 2009. Winners will be ...

Should the music industry be ‘disconnecting’ or ‘reconnecting’ people’s interest in digital music distribution?
Josh Chandler — ... Now, the “economic viability of the music industry” back in early 2000’s granted was in a turbulent stage, with the iTunes Store yet to be created and over 10 million estimated P2P users in 2000 according to a report from BusinessWeek.com it was a tough time to be in the music industry. But since then, during the last 8 years since the iTunes launched, many legal digital music stores have launched such as Amazon MP3 and EMusic. Digital music sales accounted for 35% of all sales in the first half of 2009 ...

Sony catalog comes to Amie Street--with fine print
Webware.com — ... company owned by Sony, already offers its songs on Amie Street through the dynamic-pricing model. "Sony Music obviously has the option to experiment with dynamic pricing at their discretion," Boltuch added. "Clearly we would love to do that with them." This isn't the first time that an indie music retailer has had to compromise to ink a major-label deal. Sony was also the first major label to bring its catalog--well, its "classic" back catalog--to subscription site eMusic. But the deal resulted in eMusic raising some of its prices in tandem. Amie ...

eMusic Owner Looking To Buy Up All Of The Orchard
paidContent — eMusic owner JDS Capital’s private equity arm Dimensional Associates is negotiating with digital music and video distributor The Orchard to buy up all of the outstanding common stock it does not already own. Dimensional previously owned The Orchard (NSDQ: ORCD) prior to its 2007 merger with Digital Music Group Inc (DMGI), which saw the ownership structure change but the name remain. Dimensional still owns a majority of the firm, which lost ...