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- <b><font size=5><font color="#aaoooo"><font size=6>T</font>he Internet</font></font></b> is swamped by music. It ranges from an extension of
- a CD mail order catalogue to a broadcast medium for radio,
- concerts and DJ nights, to
- providing downloadable songs. But is anyone actually making
- any money out of it?
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- <font color="#aaoooo">Dotmusic - selling CDs online<br>
- but only making 'coffee money'</font>
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- <b><font size=5>F</font></b>or Nick Pincott, partner of <a href="http://www.music-stop.co.uk/">
- Music Stop</a>, the answer is yes.
- Music Stop is a small independent music company with two stores
- in Bristol, but thanks to an
- Internet site set up 18 months ago the business now has a
- worldwide customer base.
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- <b><font size=5>T</font></b>he site, set up by Pincott for less than ú1,000, offers a
- catalogue of 200 albums which can be ordered by email,
- fax, phone or Net, once the company
- moves to a secure server. 'It was a minuscule outlay for
- what we get out of it,' says Pincott. 'When we started, we decided not to pour lots of money into it
- but to put a little in and see if we got any response.'
- Now, the site contributes roughly two per cent of the business,
- generating ú5,000 to ú6,000 a year and
- recouping the initial outlay monthly.
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- <b><font size=5>M</font></b>any sites use the Net as an extension of the mail order
- concept, including <a href="http://www.cdnow.com/">
- CDNow</a> in America. And Dotmusic, the
- Internet arm of Miller Freeman, United
- News, publisher of Music Week, has been selling CDs on
- its site since September 1996.
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- '<b><font size=5>T</font></b>ake-up has been international though it isn't huge,' says
- Ian Nicolson, <a href="http://www.dotmusic.com/">Dotmusic</a> online editor and Webmaster. 'However,
- we were approached by the
- likes of CDNow and those services are also a long way from
- being profitable.
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