Bish bash bosh, downloaded! Pukka
UK supermarket giant Sainsbury's is launching its own digital download service in time for Christmas. It plans to take on rival online services, such as iTunes and Amazon, by offering music and movie files for download initially, with ebooks to follow in the new year.
However, according to videogames industry journal MCV, games will not be available to download from the retailer, even though it is offering the physical versions of them on its new online entertainment store?launched last week.
Richard Crampton, head of entertainment at Sainsbury's, said: "Online enables us to offer much more than we can in store”.
“The new site will join seamlessly with our existing non-food online offer so customers can browse and discover their favourite music, films, books and games easily".
However, it remains to be seen whether the latest addition to the brand's offering can compete with more established rivals. If it can undercut other download services with price, in the same way that it does in its many shops, it could well be the place to visit when it's Christmas Eve and you still haven't bought a present for the missus.
A downloaded copy of Progress by Take That has to be better than a king size bag of charcoal brickettes, surely...
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Sainsbury's takes on iTunes in Christmas download battle originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:08:00 +0000
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