The next logical company to roll out a music subscription service: Target
Just when you thought everybody already had a
music service, along comes Target to cash in on the action. They'll be doing both the per-track download thing a la iTunes Music Store and the portable subscription thing a la Napster,
Yahoo!, and
RealNetworks. The portable service will probably be priced in between Yahoo's $6.99 and Napster's $14.95 monthly. Music label execs are hoping Target will fare better than Virgin Megastore and Wal-Mart, the other retailers who've sort of flopped in the digital download space.
Yeah, um, good luck with that.