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Magnatune selling USB Flash Drives of 10 Rock Albums in retail stores
In partnership with Hana Micron http://www.hanamicron.com, in March you'll start seeing Magnatune-brand USB Flash drives, with 10 complete rock albums loaded on the drive. The drives will be sold in retail outlets, both in music stores and in computer stores, and will come in a variety of megabyte sizes. You can plug them into the USB port of any computer and play the MP3s right from the drive. You can see what the packaging will look like here:
The initial manufacturing run is for 50,000 units, so this should get some visibility for us in the retail world. We'll have more information when the USB drives become available in stores. The 10 rock artists on the product are: Artemis, Arthur Yoria, Brad Sucks, Burnshee Thornside, Emmas Mini, Fluid, Jade Leary, Myles Cochran, The Kokoon, and Tom Paul. If this sells as we hope, we'll be releasing additional USB Flash drives for different music genres.
Posted by John Buckman on November 26, 2004 at 12:10 PM | Permalink
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On the fron of the package Linux is spelled Lixux. Other than that NEAT
Posted by: Robert Jagger at Dec 6, 2004 8:01:44 PM
The ultimate irony is misspelling something when noting a misspelling.
Posted by: Robert Jagger at Dec 6, 2004 8:03:46 PM
Are people buying the music, or just a flash drive with CC-licensed MP3s on it? Just wondering whether "the complete albums are downloadable at no extra cost" means they are given a password to download music, or whether they are referred to the Magnatune site where they can either download MP3s or buy music in different formats.
Posted by: Nathan Jones at Dec 13, 2004 5:25:04 PM
