Analysis: Music Industry Banks On Free In Effort To Get Paid

By Yinka Adegoke NEW YORK (Reuters) - The future of the music business is social, free -- and hopefully profitable. After a decade when sales tumbled 50 percent, record labels cut thousands of jobs and more than 35,000 consumers got sued for illegal downloads, the industry is coming around to the idea of giving away songs as a way to get customers to pay. Read More...

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