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Planet M To Allow In-Store Digital Downloads As CD Sales Wane; Entering DVD Rental Business

By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 29 Jul 2007 10:44 PM PST

Music store Planet M will soon introduce digital music downloading in its stores nationwide to counter the decline in CD sales. [via BusinessofCinema.com]The plan is to place kiosks with downloading software in stores for customers to download songs available at the store. There are about 75 Planet Ms in the country and a few more outlets will be opened in 2008. The digital music plan will be rolled out around Diwali this year.

Nikhil adds: PlanetM, which is a Times Group company, has also tied up with Essar Telecom Retail for housing outlets of The Mobile Store in up to 40 PlanetM outlets [via ToI]. Now the company is also planning to enter the VCD/DVD rental business (via ET) and open 500 stores in four years, including 100 outlets in Tier-II cities in the next 12-18 months. I’m wondering if Indiatimes will host a VCD/DVD rental site for PlanetM; there’s obvious synergy.

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From deepak Sun 12 Aug 2007 05:56 AM

These ideas if implemented will be very useful for the end consumer.

From shekhar Wed 09 Apr 2008 07:43 AM

but mobile store facility will be finish after this plan

From satyam sharma Mon 18 Aug 2008 03:48 AM

this is very good move by planet M management as it will be beneficial not only for end users but also for the company where it will have different positioning in the minds of customer.Even i am very much excited about the cd rental plan ,now i will not have to loose large chunk of money in buying cds.