Naxos Digital: Innovation From An “Industry Leader”
ONLINE STREAMING SERVICES
- a unique listening resource for schools, universities and libraries with over 240,000 tracks
- available in CD-quality (128 Kbps) or near-CD-quality sound (64 Kbps)
- 1,127 institutional subscribers from 30 countries and territories worldwide
- online access to the Naxos catalog and 40 other labels, including Chandos, BIS, PentaTone
- supplementary education material: a virtual study site with revision notes and practice questions
- nearly 20,000 tracks
- includes catalogs of Fantasy Jazz, Naxos Jazz, Prophone, Propius
- one of the most comprehensive collections of classic audiobook material available online
- more than 410 classic novels, plays, and poetry - over 1,170 individual works and stories - from Naxos AudioBooks and Naxos Educational
- more than 340 authors, playwrights and poets represented
Naxos Web Radio (www.NaxosRadio.com)
- over 60 commercial-free music channels of classical music
- folk, world, new age, channels also available
- available in 20 kbps audio quality for $9.95/year; 64 kbps audio quality for $19.95
- listeners can register for $19.95/year to hear all Naxos CDs online in 20 kbps audio quality
- registration allows visitors to hear samples of all tracks for free
DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ONLINE RETAIL OUTLETS
Classicsonline (www.classicsonline.com)
- a new music download site with a comprehensive collection of Naxos recordings and tracks from other labels such as BIS, Chandos, Collegium, and Coro
- all downloads are Digital Rights Management-free
- MP3 format at 192 Kilobits per second; tracks available à la carte up to 20 minutes
- CD covers and liner notes are available for downloading free of charge
NaxosDirect (www.naxosdirect.com)
- online boutique CD and DVD store with Naxos’s 5,500 titles and DVDs and CDs from the other labels
- quick, intuitive search tools by keyword search and by categories specific to classical music
- interactive features: customer reviews, the NaxosDirect Blog, and a regularly-updated News section
- extensive composer biographies, historical information, and an audio player
- customers earn points to redeem for discounts on future purchases; gift certificates also available
ON DIGITAL DOWNLOAD STORES, SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
- top-selling label on eMusic; entire Naxos catalogue up on the download store since October 2005
- attracting new classical consumers on iTunes with interesting and innovative digital-only albums
- Naxos Classical Music Spotlight podcasts with Raymond Bisha: a hit since autumn 2005
- digital services accounted for 20% of total income in 2006, up from 8% in 2005
- entire catalog up on social network site Last.FM
MPKEY
- downloadable classical music collections available through music retail outlets
- an easy and affordable way to download and enjoy hours of classical music
- all tracks available free of digital rights management in MP3 format from eMusic
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