{"id":254,"date":"2005-05-17T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T09:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/wp_1\/index.php\/archive\/cd-burning-kiosks-business-model\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T09:44:11","slug":"cd-burning-kiosks-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2005\/05\/cd-burning-kiosks-business-model\/","title":{"rendered":"CD-burning kiosks business model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=769&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/nm\/20050515\/music_nm\/kiosks_dc\">interesting article<\/a> on the failing business model of placing kiosks in public spaces i.e. retail outlets like Walmart etc. &#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concept seems great: Place CD-burning kiosks that can manufacture out-of-stock albums in retail stores and offer customized compilations, too.<\/p>\n<p>But after numerous false starts, retailers, hardware suppliers and the major labels say a quagmire of issues still threatens to overwhelm the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the momentum of Starbucks leading the way [&#8230;] retailers say that in-store CD manufacturing still has one big problem: an <strong>unprofitable business model<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; for me this business model ain&#8217;t broken, providing customers with access to a broad selection of music for in-store burning of personalized mixes (delivering immediate gratification) without the need for big inventories on the retailers side makes perfect sense &#8230; the problem seems to be rather that the music labels are not happy about this business model (innovation, hmm, hmm) &#8230; together with significant hardware costs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>stringent content-usage requirements from the majors [&#8230;] each major label is licensing music for kiosks with its own set of strings attached<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billboard.blogs.com\/billboardpostplay\/2005\/05\/are_cdburning_k.html\">Billboard<\/a> puts this in context:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In their usual lack of responsiveness to rapidly changing market conditions, it sounds like <strong>the labels are going to miss out (again) from a chance to earn new revenues from an untapped market segment<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Business model innovations are not always welcome, still one has to wonder if this is the right path &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article on the failing business model of placing kiosks in public spaces i.e. retail outlets like Walmart etc. &#8230; The concept seems great: Place CD-burning kiosks that can manufacture out-of-stock albums in retail stores and offer customized compilations, too. But after numerous false starts, retailers, hardware suppliers and the major labels say a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,6],"tags":[15,47,40,26,143,19,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}