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However, this method of accessing music online was intended to do more than give Kozmo-ites an excuse never to leave their computers. It was cleverly designed to subvert the music industry's control over the distribution of music. Bands that the music industry's corporate elite had decided were not worthy of promotional support could now be easily accessed online. In addition, Napster challenged the one-hit album marketing ploy. Surely one of the reasons that music industry executives were worried about Napster was that they were afraid that after hearing 'that hit song' on the radio, Napster users...
...matter how you do the math, Park's Grisham-spawned revelation still makes sense. Services are needed to bring goods from the Net to people's front doors. He just hopes the messengers will be wearing Kozmo's blue-and-orange uniforms...
...Today Kozmo serves 300,000 customers in 11 cities, rushing to their doorsteps with everything from Palm computers and MP3 players to snack food and video games. The only pothole in Kozmo's bike path is the same one that has upset so many Web ventures: the money drain. While it nabbed $250 million in capital from investors, including $60 million from Amazon and an additional $25 million from Starbucks, Kozmo posted a loss of $26 million last year and laid off 10% of its 3,300 employees this summer. Analysts point to the high cost of operating a "last...
...understandable that administrators would worry that alcohol delivery might increase underage drinking. But Kozmo countered with a set of proposals to minimize the risk that alcohol would be sold to underage students. These proposals, when applied to Harvard students, would include carding students who pick up the deliveries, banning deliveries to first-year housing, restricting hours and possibly days when beer could be delivered and setting a limit on the amount of alcohol which could be delivered in a given time period. These are reasonable concessions and would have done much to address the University's concerns about alcohol delivery...
Police and University officials responded that couriers would be less reliable in carding students. But any reasonable business like Kozmo would be especially vigilant in training its couriers in proper carding procedure, especially if the business was threatened with the possibility of losing its license. Rather than working with the company to develop a reasonable compromise, Harvard and other Boston colleges told Kozmo to drop the idea altogether...