Boing Boing posted a story about Wal-Mart ending its use of DRM wrappers on its MP3 download service and how, for its customers, there is now the inconvenience of backing up those MP3s by burning them to disc. If the files are not saved that way they will no longer be available via the Wal-Mart [...]
From today’s New York Times - On Tuesday Wal-Mart started selling on an exclusive basis a three-disc collection by the popular 1980s band Journey called “Revelation.” The difference, however, is that there is no middleman: the album was bought directly from the band without the help of a record label. Journey went right to Wal-Mart [...]
Hypebot reports - You know that things are bad when the exclusive supplier of the nation’s top brick and morter music seller decides to call it quits. In another sign of declining sales, Wal-Mart rack jobber Handleman is exiting the music business in North America.
Albert A. Koch, President and Chief Executive Officer of Handleman, [...]