{"id":343,"date":"2003-11-17T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T21:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/walmart-online\/"},"modified":"2003-11-17T16:02:42","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T21:02:42","slug":"walmart-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/walmart-online\/","title":{"rendered":"walmart online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>several days ago,  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/business\/9969.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">new york post<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/webguide\/music\/2003-11-14-walmart-music_x.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">usa today<\/a> mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/the_evil_empires_spotlight_on_walmart.html\">walmart<\/a> getting into the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/comparing_music_sites.html\">online music<\/a> business.<\/p>\n<p>at that time, the wall street journal (couldn&#8217;t find a link) pegged it at about 200,000 tracks, mostly country.  walmart being walmart, you can imagine they are likely to break the &#8220;99 cent&#8221; barrier that has become the universal per-track price point.  and you can bet that they will use a little leverage to get those terms.  and i think they aren&#8217;t going to be happy with the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/the_brutal_economics_of_itunes.html\">itunes economics<\/a> (they apparently expect to make money on this, and they aren&#8217;t selling ipods).<\/p>\n<p>with itunes (mac) launched in april (i think) and itunes (windows) launched in october 2003, it&#8217;s taken very, very little time for this field to get crowded enough to make it interesting to walmart.<\/p>\n<p>now we might get to see just how much blood you can squeeze out of an artist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong> (2004.01.02):  professor lessig has a very important <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/001647.shtml\" class=\"broken_link\">review<\/a> of the walmart terms.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong> (2005.05.08):  maybe these will help<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6543988535644082\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"728x90_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"8316017428\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"191933\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"333366\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"99CC33\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"FFCC00\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"FFFFFF\";\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong> (2005.06.08):  congratulations, applicants.  you&#8217;re getting famous.  for my commentary, you can check <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/the_internet_brings_the_stupid.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/i_now_control_the_walmart.html\">here<\/a>.  for other perspectives, see Comments around the net&#8230;  on another subject, google is NOT doing very good at targeting this page.  i also spotted myself an &#8220;r&#8221; for &#8220;leverage.&#8221;  that was annoying&#8230; hey.  maybe that&#8217;s the reason for all the confusion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>several days ago, the new york post and usa today mentioned walmart getting into the online music business. at that time, the wall street journal (couldn&#8217;t find a link) pegged it at about 200,000 tracks, mostly country. walmart being walmart, you can imagine they are likely to break the &#8220;99 cent&#8221; barrier that has become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}