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Friday News: Music market controlled by four labels; Walmart says no to Kindle; eBook discounts are reaching 97%

Wait, it’s Friday already? Universal-EMI Merger Could Yield New Mega-Label To Threaten The Future Of Music – Did the internet ruin record labels? I mean, Napster, Pandora, the decline of the CD and the rise of the low priced single heralded the end of labels, right? Apparently not. The four largest record labels currently control(…)

Magazine and Book Distributor Suspending Normal Business Activities

Anderson News announced last month it would charge 7c per copy to the publisher for the distribution of magazines and books. Publishers balked and refused to ship the content to Anderson News. Now Anderson News has suspended “Normal Business Activities.” The distributor services 40,000 outlets including 2300 Wal-mart stores. Most reports speak only about the(…)

Reason 510 DRM Is Terrible: Wal-Mart Ends Video Download Service

One reason I was so disgusted when Kindle debuted with its super proprietary Mobipocket format was because of the history of companies, both big and small, to stop supporting the proprietary format of the month, leaving its consumers high and dry. Wal-mart has announced that it will end its video download service after just one(…)

Wal-Mart to Sell DRM free Digital Music. Can Digital Books Be Far Behind?

Wal-Mart positions itselfto be a force in the digital music business in which Apple ITunes holds a more than 70% market share. To challenge the big gun who is now third in the overall music sales, Wal-Mart has begun to sell high quality (256 ) songs from EMI at a lower price point. While Apple(…)

Changes Afoot to Wal-Mart’s Shelving of Books?

Word came down a few weeks ago that the brick and mortar Wal-mart stores were reducing the number of mid list authors it was going to carry. According to Black Romance Reader, that is not the only negative book shelving change that is going on. BRR reported that the following: I'd already known about Wal-Mart's(…)