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Google to Launch Music-Streaming Service
Google Inc.’s Android unit is set to launch a paid subscription music-streaming service akin to that of Spotify AB as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.Voices
The More Pandora Sells, the More It Loses
A tenth of a cent might not sound like a lot of money. But Pandora Media Inc.’s 18 percent stock drop Wednesday is a sobering reminder that those fractions add up — especially when advertising sales don’t keep pace.Voices
Spotify Nears Financing at Over $3B Valuation
Spotify Ltd. is in the midst of closing a round of financing that will value the Internet music service at slightly more than $3 billion, said people with knowledge of the matter.Free Music
… what Spotify teaches us most of all is that there are bands we think we like whose records we won’t listen to even when they’re free …
– Jimmy Guterman, via Twitter
Digital Killed the Radio Star
The idea that we have to pay them to put their music on our radio stations is absurd …
– CBS CEO Les Moonves
Stream Heat
Streaming or downloading 12 tracks, without compression, just 27 times by one user would, in energy terms, equate to the production and shipping of one physical 12-track CD album.
–Dagfinn Bach, in a Music Tank study on digital music consumption
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Apple Seeks to Create Pandora Rival
Apple Inc. is in talks to license music for a custom-radio service similar to the popular one operated by Pandora Media Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be a bid by the hardware maker to expand its dominance in online music.Voices
Forget CDs — Teens Tune In to YouTube
Among the issues dividing teenagers and their parents, add whether to listen to music on YouTube or on CD.Team Amanda
It doesn’t feel like a windfall. It feels like the accumulated reward for years and years of work.
– Amanda Palmer, in an interview before the party to celebrate the $1,192,793 she raised during a monthlong Kickstarter campaign for her new album
Attacked by Pirates!
Most Kindle, iPad and Nook owners seem to view piracy as a low-rent and time-consuming experience compared with the sanctioned alternatives. They probably wouldn’t if the publishers had kicked things off with a five-year content boycott.
– Rob Reid, from an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, entitled “What To Do When Attacked by Pirates”