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  • Napster sees subscriptions as future of online music

    01/06/2005 3:32:40 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 8 replies · 467+ views
    CHICAGO SUN-TIMES ^ | January 6, 2005 | JEFFERSON GRAHAM
    Chris Gorog is convinced that people won't continue to pay $1 a song for online music. That is despite Apple's string of recent achievements, including 200 million songs sold at its iTunes Music Store, and nearly 4 million iPod digital music players moved into consumers' homes in 2004. Gorog runs Apple rival Napster (www.napster.com), which offers digital downloads and a music subscription deal. Consumers get unlimited access to listen to 700,000 songs for $9.95 monthly. The hitch is that to move songs onto a portable digital device or to a CD costs extra: $1 a song. That's one of the...