Monday, January 26, 2004

Yahoo! News - Smithsonian Label to Sell Folk Catalog as Downloads

Yahoo! News - Smithsonian Label to Sell Folk Catalog as Downloads

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (Billboard) - Nonprofit label Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is making its entire collection of 33,000 folk and world music songs available as downloads for 99 cents apiece. The service will debut April 1 on the label's own site, http://www.folkways.si.edu, and later this spring on the Smithsonian's http://www.globalsound.org site."