SanDisk Sells Music In Memory Card

NEW YORK - After cassette ribbon era defeated by CD and DVD, now memory card maker company cooperates to sell tidy music in memory card.

This step initiative by memory card maker company SanDisk Corp is cooperating with four the biggest record labels in world and two companies retailer Best Buy and Wal Mart. Sale of music in packaging of this memory card expected will add rich of sale strategy of the record labels so that they can add music mankind purse.

Published through Associated Press, Monday ( 22/9/2008), sale strategy of music in memory card people say will be launched this week by the name of program slotMusic. Later, output music albums of four record labels like Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music and EMI Group, will start released by using SD Card, complete with software protects to avoid piracy.

According to data Nielsen SoundScan, sale of music by using CD now has reached 449 million units in the year 2007. While sale of music by using digital format like online store and other has reached 50 million downloads. But this year, sale of music CD is predicted will decline even its(the downdraft reaching 19 %.

" SlotMusic will be sold in the form of microSD with capacity 1 gigabyte. Capacity equal to this very enough menyimpan to one music albums property of a singer, complete with other konten like wallpaper, and appearance covers within reason in traditional packaging album. Even remaining capacity of memory menyimpan applicable to other songs," says business principal audio-video SanDisk Daniel Schreiber.