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...Newbury Comics, the Coop, Harvard Bookstore and Tower Records—to give the album shelf space. Some retailers may set up displays for the Veritas compilation; Tower is considering putting it in a listening booth. Surette is also in talks with upstart online organizations such as iTunes and Napster 2.0 about getting the music into their catalogs. The individual bands will also sell the album, but the main venue for distribution will be a massive outdoor concert party that will mark the album’s release...
...song. The home button comes in handy when you're stuck deep in your music library, and pop-up menus improve navigation. Dell also scores points for compatibility. The DJ will play all the MP3s and Windows Media files in your music collection--even protected files from the new Napster--and you can also access the Musicmatch music store, which has a huge selection of 99¢ songs that you can buy to play on your computer, burn to CDs or transfer to the DJ player...
Long before the Music Store came on the scene, frantic record-industry executives had been searching for some way to combat their nemesis: Napster, the original file-sharing service, but to no avail. Their first online ventures, MusicNet and PressPlay, were disasters, largely because the labels didn't trust their users--or one another. High subscription fees and poor selections turned off would-be customers; most skulked off to the underground services, such as Kazaa and Limewire, which had sprung up after Napster's demise...
...stacks could take years. Like Steve Jobs with his iTunes Music Store, Bezos had to negotiate a maze of copyright issues and publishing-house egos to get his digital archive off the ground. Some writers in the cooking and travel genres fear a whole new kind of literary Napster situation. They say readers will too easily crib a recipe or city description without buying the book. They may have a point. Then again, how hard is it to scribble down a recipe while standing in the cooking aisle at Barnes & Noble...
Other than filing expenses, it's hard to imagine a duller office chore than updating your address book. But help might be at hand. Sean Parker, a co-founder of Napster, is here to help. The onetime online-music exec is the mind behind Plaxo (plaxo.com), a company providing free, easily downloaded software that integrates with Microsoft Outlook to keep your address book up to date. So long as your contact is also a Plaxo user, any changes to his or her phone number, e-mail address or postal address will be automatically sent to your...