Sony BMG Developing Music Subscription Service
Date : 2008 03 25 Category : Web News
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Mulling flat rate fee of $9 to $12 USD for unlimited downloads from its entire music catalog.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has announced recently that it's developing an online music subscription service that would give users unlimited access to its music catalog for a flat rate monthly fee of around $9 to $12 USD. Also, unlike Apple's iTunes it promises that all downloads will be compatible with a wide variety of portable digital music players.
In an interview with the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published Monday, chief executive Rolf Schmidt-Holtz did not offer a timeline for unveiling the service.
As for costs to subscribers, the newspaper quoted him as saying that the "simplest option would be a flat rate" fee per month of around 6 to 8 euros ($9 to $12) for unlimited access to Sony BMG's entire music catalog and that the downloads would be compatible with all players, including Apple's ubiquitous iPod.