"LOS ANGELES - Sony Corp entered the bourgeoning digital music market Tuesday, launching an online music download service that the electronics and media conglomerate is banking will also generate sales for its line of portable audio players. The service, dubbed Sony Connect, offers more than 500,000 tracks from artists on major and independent labels. Like Napster 2.0and the iTunes Music Store from Apple Computer Inc., Sony Connect sells individual tracks starting at 99 cents and full album downloads beginning at $9.99." Link: Yahoo! News - Sony Launches Online Music Service[1] -- Posted by Marcus Landstrom to Gimlet Blog[2] at 5/5/2004 11:22:57 AM --- Links --- 1 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040505/ap_en_mu/sony_online_music 2 http://www.gimlet.se/blog/index.html