MySpace keeps trying to sell music downloads

Smells like… depser­a­tion! The New York Times reports that three of the largest record­ing com­pa­nies will sell dig­i­tal music through an updated MySpace music store. Read­WriteWeb has more details on the updated store, which EMI is avoid­ing for now.

While MySpace does have a large user base, the site can’t offer the easy inte­gra­tion that Apple’s iPod and iTunes have developed.

Pre­vi­ous efforts like Helio might have sur­vived if MySpace had done a bet­ter job with its ear­lier music sales sites. See this 4 Sep­tem­ber 2006 New York Times arti­cle and an ear­lier arti­cle from Mash­able for more details.

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