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Cell phone ring tone sales hit $3.5B
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:10:40 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall () SIMS Berkeley EDU> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:23:12 To:Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> Subject: Cell phone ring tone sales hit $3.5B esp. note the last paragraph below... -Joe --- http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/13/news/funny/ring_tones.reut/index.htm Cell phone ring tone sales hit $3.5B Those little jingles are turning into a big business. January 13, 2004: 1:31 PM EST LONDON (Reuters) - Sales of mobile phone ring tones, those tinny song recordings programmed into millions of handsets around the world, jumped 40 percent in the past year to $3.5 billion, according to a study released on Tuesday. The worldwide sale of ring tones, which started as a marketing gimmick for music labels and mobile phone companies, is roughly equivalent to 10 percent of the $32.2 billion global music market. [...] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Lorenzo Hall http://pobox.com/~joehall/ Graduate Student blog: http://pobox.com/~joehall/nqb/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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