They changed the coffee landscape. Will they do the same with music?
Since acquiring music company HearMusic in 1999, Starbucks, with 7,500-plus locations worldwide, has been slowly getting into the music business. First, they began selling record compilations alongside their coffee brands. Now they’ve teamed up with Hewlett-Packard Co. to let their 30 million weekly customers burn CDs from a selection of 250,000 songs for a fee-$6.99 for five songs, $1 for each additional song-while sipping lattes. According to Lombard, ?We’ll test 10 stores in Seattle by August and put the technology in 200 stores by year’s end.? It is estimated that by 2006, the service will roll into 2,500 stores. Starbucks is also testing in record and bookstores that serve coffee. The first fully-integrated Starbucks HearMusic store opened in March in Santa Monica, California. (full story)
I know most people are Starbucks haters, but at least they have good taste in music.
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