7digital Intros Streaming Web Player
As its co-owner HMV (LSE: HMV) struggles to manage a fall in physical sales, digital music retailer 7digital is borrowing a trick from new m… Read more »
Music And Movie Studios Take A Slice Of HMV To Save Disc Sales
Struggling UK entertainment retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) is giving equity worth 2.5 percent to its key suppliers – music and movie studios – to a… Read more »
HMV Sees Physical Content Crash Slowing Down, Despite Christmas Crunch
HMV’s CEO says the slowdown in plastic music and movie sales is itself slowing down – even though its Christmas was nearly a tenth worse tha… Read more »
UK’s Waterstones To Wade Into The E-Reader Market With Kindle Killer?
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Waterstones — the leading UK bookseller that was recently bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut — is taking a tip from its U.S. co… Read more »
Interview: 7digital CEO Ben Drury On HMV’s Digital Future
HMV (LSE: HMV) must move steadily away from selling physical entertainment content and toward the hardware on which digital content is consu… Read more »
Waterstones’ E-books Supply Not Threatened By HMV Sell-Off
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The sale of UK bookseller Waterstones to Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut should not hamper its ability to sell electronic books. Read more »
Where Now For Waterstone’s In The E-Book Migration?
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HMV’s sale of Waterstone’s, one of the UK’s leading booksellers, removes some weight from around HMV’s neck, but doesn’t necessarily set Wat… Read more »
HMV Sells Bookseller Waterstone’s For £53 Million
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HMV (LSE: HMV) has sold its Waterstone’s book chain to a fund controlled by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53 ($85.79)m. Read more »
Publishers, Waterstones Turn Book Discovery Network In To Retail Store
HMV (LSE: HMV), HarperCollins, Penguin and Random House are financing a new “social retail” service aiming to help readers find, buy and sha… Read more »
Can 7digital Save HMV?
Not to pile the pressure on CEO Ben Drury – but HMV’s worsening fortunes appear to suggest the increasing strategic importance of 7digital,… Read more »
HMV To Close 60 Stores After Tough Christmas
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HMV (LSE: HMV) is to close 60 stores across the UK after suffering a sharp fall in sales over the crucial Christmas period.
The struggling… Read more »
HMV Splits Digital, Physical Retail Across Two Sites
Here’s the first outcome of HMV’s part-acquisition of 7digital — HMVDigital.com, a new online store for digital music.
Curiously, the upsh… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Orange SMS Ads; Vodafone 360 Stats; Android MusicStation; 7digital BlackBerry
Some briefs from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona…
– Orange SMS ads: Orange is extending its interactive mobile advertising service to… Read more »
HMV Sold 80k Ebooks Over Christmas
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A trading update from retailer HMV for the last five weeks ended January 2 indicates that its move into new lines of business like digital m… Read more »
HMV Sticking To Tech, Games As Sales Creep Up
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HMV (LSE: HMV) promises more collect-at-store gig tickets (there’s a new partnership with Seatwave), in-store cinema screens and “further pa… Read more »
HMV Hires Amazon Exec For Continued Online Retail Push
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High street music chain HMV (LSE: HMV) has a new head of online: former head of DVD buying at Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Sarah Hughes is joining th… Read more »
Interview: 7Digital CEO Ben Drury: 'HMV Deal Helps Us Fight Apple, Amazon'
Discussions to wrap online music retailer 7Digital in to HMV (LSE: HMV), which is buying half the firm for £7.7 million, began with their C… Read more »
HMV Buying Half Of Digital Music Retailer 7Digital For $12.6 Million
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Entertainment retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) is buying a 50 percent stake in the increasingly well-thought-of UK online music retailer 7Digital for… Read more »
HMV Buying Half Of Digital Music Retailer 7Digital For £7.7 Million
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HMV (LSE: HMV) is making a surprise announcement at its AGM today – it’s buying a 50 percent stake in the increasingly well-thought-of onlin… Read more »
Earnings: HMV Grows Online Sales, Lambasts ‘Ineffective Govt’
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HMV (LSE: HMV) profit rose 18.5 percent to £44.2 million in the year to April 2009, after 4.4 percent better sales of £1.95 billion. Onlin… Read more »
