HMV launches digital store
With CD sales dwindling, Canada’s largest traditional retailer of music, HMV, is launching a digital store.
The new site at hmvdigital.ca will offer millions of tracks in MP3 format, without digital rights management software, the retailer said in a release.
It is inviting consumer input on the site beginning Wednesday.
Among the features are personal accounts that record what consumers have bought through the site, so they can download the same tracks later if they have lost them or want to listen from a different computer or player.
HMV, which has 131 Canadian stores, is racing to claim a share in the digital realm from iTunes, Amazon and 7Digital.
The store is being launched in French and in English.
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