NEWS Starbucks may offer to fill your iPod with MP3’s
The New York Daily News is reporting that Starbucks is planning to offer its customers the chance to purchase songs for their iPod with their Coffee. Customers at Starbucks may soon be able to say “I’ll take a Double Mocha Latte and fill up my iPod.”
“The ubiquitous coffee chain already sells music CDs with its coffees but soon may offer on-the-fly MP3 downloads.
“A lot of our customers are asking for device fill-up, and going forward we’ll do that,” said Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment, at the Midem music industry conference in Cannes.
The chain hasn’t yet set a date for moving into music player downloads and is still talking to various companies about the technology, Lombard said. “