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July 29, 2002 - http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1401
Like most of the record business, classical music is having a tough
time finding a new audience in the digital download world. And in
line with the recent moves by record labels to market popular music
online, classical music fans in the UK will soon have another bona
fide incentive for locating and legally purchasing works via the
Internet.
Last week, UK Internet service providers Freeserve and Classical.com
announced that they have signed a commercial agreement to provide a
classical music subscription service on Freeserve's website. The
new collaboration has been named Freeserve Classical, and has been
set up to offer users on-demand access to Classical.com's catalog of
10,000 classical recordings, as well as an extensive resource of
classical music reference material and recommendations.
Freeserve says that its visitors will be able to select from a range
of subscription packages priced between $3.99 and $10.99 ($6.25-$17.20)
per month. The company explains that the "Essentials" package will
provide unlimited online listening as well as 10 monthly downloads,
or the equivalent of a CD's worth of tracks, that can be kept
indefinitely and played on the user's PC, burned to CD, or transferred
to a portable player.
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"Laurence Sherwood" <[log in to unmask]>
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