Word: fees
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...Nick Freer wants is his digital music, and he's even willing to pay for it. When the Hong Kong-based client-services director bought an iPod, it came with software to link with iTunes, Apple Computer's fee-based Internet music store that now dominates 70% of the online-music market. From his computer, Freer can browse every one of iTunes million-plus songs. He just can't buy any of them?consumers can only purchase and download iTunes tracks now in the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany, because the service only takes credit cards issued in those...
...those I visited and adored were Camille Savès in Bouzy, Jacquesson in Dizy, Larmandier-Bernier in Vertus and Leclerc Briant in Epernay. Pascal Leclerc Briant has an eccentric flair as well as an ability to make beautiful champagnes. If you inquire ahead (see www.leclercbriant.com), for a smallish fee you can learn to saber a champagne bottle. Holding the thick sword on the bottle's neck, I didn't think I could do it. But I shouted like a little kid when I sliced off the bottle's top in one fell swoop. There's something about the region...
...inspire and instruct. It also needs to bring in paying customers. But if you build it out of bullwhips, will they come? Slavery is one of the most shameful chapters of American history, and shameful stories are not the kind that everybody wants to pay $12--the adult admission fee at the Freedom Center--to hear. Whites may shy away from displays that implicitly indict them. Even some blacks are ambivalent about how to treat the knowledge that their ancestors were once bought and sold. Ten years ago, Colonial Williamsburg, the open-air museum in Williamsburg, Va., presented an outdoor...
...idea for Netflix, like many other great eureka moments in business, came from a mundane experience. It was 1997, and Reed Hastings was six weeks late in returning a copy of Apollo 13 to his local Blockbuster in San Jose, Calif. The late fee was $40, and the former computer scientist thought to himself, 'Never again.' He came up with a simple solution--so simple that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are still kicking themselves for not having thought of it first. Netflix customers keep a wish list of DVDs they want to see, in order of preference, on www.netflix.com Netflix then...
...extreme VOIP: free calls and free software. He admits that "we have almost no revenue" and that eventually that will be a problem. Until recently, Skype users could call only other Skype users. So in July Zennstrom started allowing Skype users to connect to non-Skype customers for a fee. He has plans to license the software, especially to cell-phone makers. If the technology works well in cell phones, Skype could start serving billions. --Mark Halper...