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SONY BMG joins Nokia Comes With Music |
BobaFett
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"Music bundle on Nokia devices to include SONY BMG content
London, United Kingdom / Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT has officially joined Nokia Comes With Music, a revolutionary way for people to discover and enjoy music with their Nokia device.
"As one of the leading major music companies in the world, our collaboration with SONY BMG means we can offer a huge range of fantastic music from both international and local artists via Comes With Music," said Tero Ojanperä, executive vice president and head of the Nokia Entertainment and Communities business. "It's great to have them on board as we move forward with bringing our unlimited music bundle to the market."
Mr. Ojanpera continued: "Nokia Comes With Music is an innovation that not only helps people discover and enjoy music, but also expand the overall business and revenue for the benefit of artists, labels and other rights holders."
"This initiative represents a critical new way of gaining access to music, through which fans will be able to explore SONY BMG's vast catalog of recordings for an entire year," commented Thomas Hesse, President, Global Digital Business & U.S. Sales, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. "We think this business model will encourage users to sample a wide range of material, expand their musical tastes, and listen to more music than ever before. In the process, we think it will provide new opportunities to artists from every genre of music, and increase demand for music overall."
People who buy a Nokia Comes With Music device will have a year of access to the SONY BMG rich catalog of music. Consumers will be able to download tracks to both their mobile device and computer through the Nokia Music Store during the first twelve months that they own their Nokia device.
At the end of the one year period, they can keep their downloaded tracks and, should they purchase a new compatible device or computer, they can transfer their downloaded material by substituting their new device or computer for the original devices. As a result, music fans who participate in the Comes With Music experience will be able to keep their downloads on their device and/or computer for the rest of their lives.
Consumers will have a number of attractive options for continuing to get new music after the Nokia Comes With Music subscription is over: they will be able to continue to purchase additional tracks from the Nokia Music Store, or move on to a Nokia "unlimited access" subscription service to enjoy new releases and catalog tracks not downloaded during the initial year.
Comes With Music is expected to launch in the second half of 2008 on a range of Nokia devices in selected markets."
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1211833
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gola
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the irony!
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BobaFett
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indeed  very intresting step... maybe sony see more possibility in nokia like in se? well, if thats the reason, it all based on the sales of nokia...
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ablad
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I think this is cool !
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belialwafu
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its like  (without the ericsson) to nokia..lol such disgrace to sony. They dont even care of there group of companies 
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BobaFett
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they focus on the biz imo. as mentioend above, nokia sell far more fones and se isnt that succesful, sony wanna earn money...
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On 2008-04-24 01:31:49, BobaFett wrote:
they focus on the biz imo. as mentioend above, nokia sell far more fones and se isnt that succesful, sony wanna earn money...
You're so right Boba. Sony may be part Sony Ericsson but when it comes to revenue SE will take a "back seat". Like you pointed out Nokia sells more phones than SE which in turn means more money for SonyBMG in this deal.
It's also not like they didn't think of SE, the same deal was also concluded with them.
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NightBlade
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Wait a sec... a year of free music downloads? What's the catch??
Nokia can't have the money to pay for ALL of those downloads... |
vladn02
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SE is part of SONY not the other way around and i think that its a great business move on SONYBMG's part, if SE could step it up they would be great too, unfortunately SE is falling, they control very little market compared to what they could do with their technology, they have tons of great product that could be better, i think its just poor management on their behalf.
cant wait till this all happens though go nokia! and SE of course! |
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On 2008-04-24 22:21:44, vladn02 wrote:
SE is part of SONY not the other way around and i think that its a great business move on SONYBMG's part, if SE could step it up they would be great too, unfortunately SE is falling, they control very little market compared to what they could do with their technology, they have tons of great product that could be better, i think its just poor management on their behalf.
cant wait till this all happens though go nokia! and SE of course!
I take it you're trying to correct my statement. If you read carefully you'll understand what I've written. I wrote "Sony may be part Sony Ericsson..." just just as Ericsson is part Sony Ericsson as this is a joint venture and not a buyout by Sony or Ericsson.
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BobaFett
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On 2008-04-24 21:47:15, NightBlade wrote:
Wait a sec... a year of free music downloads? What's the catch??
Nokia can't have the money to pay for ALL of those downloads...
if a company, then nokia has got the money for it, trust me
do interested, whos idea was it  nokia asked sony or the opposite...
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Going by the report it would seem that SonyBMG aproached Nokia.
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Posted: 2008-04-23 23:21
