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“The new site will offer all of Universal’s classical and jazz releases, including classic imprints such as Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Verve and Impulse, running to 125,000 tracks taken from nearly 8,000 CDs,”

“Clare Nash, who heads the classics and jazz unit’s new media business,
said the company decided to enter the market after industry research
showed digital stores were not providing high enough quality download
files and suitable search engines,” says Reuters.

“So they’re getting there and have the right idea. They just need to
drop the price, get rid of the DRM, offer alternate encodings and
digitise their whole back catalogue.”

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