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Napster Starts Selling MP3s; 6 Million Tracks; All Majors Signed On - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 20 May 2008 04:12 AM PST

The best hope for a company like Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) is that the subscription music model really starts to take hold. Indeed the company has said that subscriptions would remain…

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Interview: Brad Duea, President, Napster; Hybrid Subscription-Downloads Business An Advantage - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 27 Feb 2008 09:50 AM PST

During the opening panel of the Digital Music Forum yesterday, multiple people predicted that service or subscription-based music would eventually supersede the traditional paid downloads business. This had to be…

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Napster To Convert Download Store To MP3 Only - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 06 Jan 2008 10:52 PM PST

Napster (NSDQ: NAPS), which last week quietly announced increase in its subscription music service, has now announced it will convert its downloads store to MP3 only by Q2 of this…

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Napster Increases Service Prices; Market in Wait-And-See Mode - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Jan 2008 10:54 PM PST

Napster (NSDQ: NAPS), the online music service, has quietly increased its monthly subscription prices, from the previous $9.95 a month to a relatively big jump to $12.95, a jump of…

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Update: Earnings: Napster Revenues Increase 24 Percent in Q2; Subscribers Up 44 Percent; 10-Q - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 01 Nov 2007 01:30 PM PST

Music subscription service Napster booked revenues of $31.6 million in its Q2, up 24 percent from last year’s $25.4 million. Net income was 43 percent narrower, as it lost $5…

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