AOL Shuts Down Music Now Service
The current 350,000 AOL Music Now subscribers will be migrated to the Napster service keeping any music they have purchased. The monthly fee ($9.95) will remain the same.
According to reports the 350,000 subscriber base is 100,000 lower then when AOL acquired the Music Now service from Circuit City Stores in 2005.
After the recent announcement that Virgin Digital is closing the doors on its U.S. operations, there are only four remaining digital music subscription services in the U.S.: eMusic, Napster, Rhapsody and Yahoo! Music Unlimited.
Sources: Napster, PC World, WebProNews