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Volume 21, Issue 5
1 May 2000
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Review Article| May 01 2000

Napster: A Business in Search of a Viable Model

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2052-1197
Print ISSN: 0275-6668
© MCB UP Limited
2000
Journal of Business Strategy (2000) 21 (5): 28–32.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040113

Napster is making a lot of headlines because it is disrupting the recording industry. Less well reported is the fact that the company has no real business model.

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