Why the rush to get into the digital music market?
It’s a market with a particularly slim profit margins, so why bother? BusinessWeek says it’s a marketing tool—“Companies say they still feel compelled to maintain a presence in online music, both to get a toehold in a growing market and give a complete product offering.”
Also, David Card at Jupiter Research thinks that the subscription model can “can support much better margins” than the a la carte method.
Also in what concerns everyone’s beloved company: on the left side of the article, you’ll find yourselves a poll asking how should the consumers respond to Sony (read: rootkit saga). Take a look at the results below:

Bonus points to those who guess what I voted.
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