A couple of interesting points about digital music as part of Sony BMG’s business...it’s currently around 20% but “that percentage should rise “significantly” when someone figures out how to make platforms interoperable. Hesse expects digital revenue to rise between 50 percent and 60 percent in 2006”.
On the mobile side: “On average, 4.1 million, or 2.1 percent of the 190 million U.S. cellular subscribers, used their mobile phone as a music player in August, according to M:Metrics Inc. The research firm estimates that number slides in Europe to 649,490.”
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