<< The following week, Amazon.com said its music sales reached $14.4 million during the first full quarter it sold music. That compares with third-quarter revenue for CDnow, which sold $13.9 million, and N2K, which recorded $10.5 million in sales.
''Any retailer who isn't worried about Amazon has their eyes closed,'' said Nicole Vanderbilt, an analyst with Jupiter Communications. >>
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"In music we're slating CDnow (NASDAQ:CDNW) and Music Blvd-N2K (NASDAQ:NTKI) ahead of Amazon for one reason: we want to see if the exclusive e-tail deals the two cut with top traffic sites and services will pay off. N2K is the exclusive or preferred online music retailer for AOL, Netscape, Excite, WebTV, @Home, iVillage, AT&T WorldNet, StarMedia, PointCast, CBS Cable's CMT, TNN, country.com, and MTV International in Europe, Asia, Japan, and Brazil.
CDnow has pacts with Yahoo!, Lycos, Lycos-Bertelsmann, Webcrawler, Tripod, Geocities, MTV/VH1, Rolling Stone Network, and CBS.com. "
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