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SpiralFrog Biz Model

SpiralFrog, an online ad-supported music streaming site, is running into financial problems. SpiralFrog has been one of the poster-children for alternative business models for the online music industry. Downloads of over 3 million songs are available on the site for free. Advertisements support the cost of downloading the songs. But now, they are running into [...]

EMI Going Retro

EMI is stepping up their vinyl album releases. For those of you born in the digital age, people used to listen to music on big discs like the one to your right. So EMI is going to release vinyl albums by Coldplay, Radiohead, and the Steve Miller Band. Last year, vinyl sales increased 80% to [...]