I think there’s a lot of good advice in 37signals’ book, “Getting Real”, and one piece of advice I particularly like is “Have An Enemy“.
80 Proof Music actually has a few enemies, in two forms: other digital music stores, such as iTunes Music Store and AmazonMP3, and organized forms of music sharing, like BitTorrent and [...]
One of the features I pitched to Bryan early on was full-length previews. He agreed without any further discussion and it’s just been one of our bullet points ever since. But it’s one that we worry might not make it to launch intact.
For users of our store (AKA “customers”), I feel there’s no question that [...]
This is the first in what I intend to be a series of posts describing the 80 Proof Music store and what’s going to be so good about it. (Or at least what will make it different.)
At launch, the store will only sell digital music. We feel strongly about digital music formats being a better [...]