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Squawk Box Sept 22 - Slot Music and Social Network Marketing

Posted on September 22, 2008

Image via WikipediaSandisk has announced a new initiative called Slot Music. It's music purchased on an SD card. It's going to be available in Walmart and Bestbuy; you buy a 1G MicroSD card, and simply plug it into your phone or PC, and play the music.The initiative is being roundly panned by the likes of Om Malik, and to a lesser degree Mike Arrington. We discussed it. It's not obvious that Sandisk is jumping onto the deck of the Titanic called the music distribution industry. In fact, it might make sense for some markets and geographies. As a substitute for CDs, however, Slot Music i...

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