KingFish
15 Oct 2004, 4:19am
Starbucks will begin rolling out next week the in-store CD burning service it announced in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard back in March.
Starbucks will install what it calls Hear Music media bars at 45 of its coffeehouses in Seattle and Austin, Texas between next week and the end of November, the first phase of a national rollout that will continue in 2005, the company will announce Thursday. The Hear Music media bars will feature the necessary hardware and software, provided by HP, for customers to search Starbucks' digital song library, choose and listen to tracks, and burn them to a CD. CDs whose song lists are compiled by customers will cost $8.99 for the first seven tracks and $0.99 per additional track. Customers will also be able to purchase full-length albums at prices that are similar to what conventional retail outlets charge. They will be able to burn these albums off the digital song library or buy them in the standard shrink-wrapped format if they are in stock at the store.
Source: PC World (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118157,00.asp)
Starbucks will install what it calls Hear Music media bars at 45 of its coffeehouses in Seattle and Austin, Texas between next week and the end of November, the first phase of a national rollout that will continue in 2005, the company will announce Thursday. The Hear Music media bars will feature the necessary hardware and software, provided by HP, for customers to search Starbucks' digital song library, choose and listen to tracks, and burn them to a CD. CDs whose song lists are compiled by customers will cost $8.99 for the first seven tracks and $0.99 per additional track. Customers will also be able to purchase full-length albums at prices that are similar to what conventional retail outlets charge. They will be able to burn these albums off the digital song library or buy them in the standard shrink-wrapped format if they are in stock at the store.
Source: PC World (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118157,00.asp)