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“Napster Inc., the name that launched the digital music revolution, is burning through cash and struggling to find an audience as a viable subscription service.

“The company reported a loss of $17 million for its fiscal third quarter — a smaller deficit than Wall Street had expected. Revenue soared 94% to $23.5 million. A year earlier, the company had a profit of $12.8 million, reflecting earnings from discontinued operations.

“The results underscored Napster’s difficulties in persuading music lovers to stop collecting music one song or CD at a time and to instead pay $14.95 a month for access to more than 1 million tunes.”

Dawn C. Chmielewski. Napster Posts Loss Despite Surge in Sales. LATimes.com. Feb. 9, 2006.

See also:

Joanna Glasner. Digital Music Biz Ain’t Booming. Wired News. Feb. 07, 2006.

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