On July 14th, music went further into the cloud with the U.S. launch of Spotify, a music-streaming service that has enjoyed success in Europe—it launched in Sweden in 2008—and seems, after signing up more than seventy thousand paying American subscribers in its first week, poised to do the same here. The application is available for computers, smartphones, and Internet-enabled home-audio systems, though access is tied to its subscription model: paying $4.99 a month gets rid the advertisements that fuel the free version, and paying $9.99 a month allows for mobile play as well as offline listening. Read more at newyorker.com…
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I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico. View more posts