Oricon gives up on PC music downloads in Japan
Oricon today announced its exit from Japan’s PC music download market, becoming the first victim among local players to the surging popularity of iTunes, reports Reuters. “Oricon, best known as a publisher of music hit charts, will instead post links from its Web site to online music stores and concentrate on music downloads for mobile phones, which are far more popular than PC-based downloads in Japan,” notes the story.
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