[Fmpro] Something i said?

[Dana from Serious Vanity Music]

Here's a little tidbit I got in email today.  I can't imagine how this is 
going to work out, for ANYBODY involved.

- LALA.COM'S MAKE-OR-BREAK MOVE

Bill Nguyen's company is going for broke on a bet it can
recapture consumers' hearts. On June 4, La La turned on a new
online service that lets people with an Internet connection
listen to all the music on its website, Lala.com, and pay only if
they want to download a given album to their iPod digital music
player. It's an audacious wager that will require La La to shell
out a whopping $140 million to buy the rights to songs from major
record companies and hundreds of indie labels - an especially
risky maneuver for a 23-person company that has $9 million in the
bank. "We're betting the company on this," says Nguyen.

Read the article: http://tinyurl.com/248ojp


Dana Detrick-Clark
Serious Vanity Music: http://www.seriousvanity.com
The Anatomy of an Album: http://album-anatomy.livejournal.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Chase" <jchase at billyhalemusic.com>
To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Something i said?


> Claude,
> Technically, it would be more like: "Something Nobody Said?"
>
> I'm kind of enjoying the radio silence.  I'm still getting caught up on
> all those L.Conte posts (slow reader) while keeping abreast of new
> posts, of course!.
> Jim Chase
>
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