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...RIAA, this is not a happy future. "The $40 billion music industry's business," says TIME business writer Karl Taro Greenfeld, "is evolving, painfully, from selling products to simply providing a service. Selling compact discs was viable as long as the companies controlled the quantity and destiny of that music." Not any more. The question for the industry is how it can still get a slice, how to make sure that all the money they spend on starmaking doesn't disappear down some college kid's hard drive. And that's where the lawyers come in. Suits against Napster...
NOKIA 8260 $250; available in Sept. With a hidden antenna, compact styling, e-mail and instant-messaging capability, the 8260 looks like a winner...
...HANDHELD $499, plus $40 a month Newcomer RIM takes on the handheld market with this compact organizer. A Web browser is coming this fall...
...Selling compact discs was viable as long as the companies controlled the quantity and destiny of that music. Metallica CDs have been available only from stores, catalogs and online sites, and sold at a price that covers production, marketing, distribution, royalties to the artist and, not least, the markup for record company and retailer. That's why CDs that each cost 50? to make retail for $15. As long as the only way to get that music was through those channels, then Metallica and its label, Electra (owned by Time Warner, TIME's publisher), had a great gig. Last week...
...It’s in the (Small) Bag: mini-hair brush, room key with ID key chain, Cover Girl Lipslicks, lip gloss, powder compact, nail file, Always maxi...