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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Music Online Streaming
Service for Libraries, Schools, and Universities to Triple in
Size
Electronic publisher moves aggressively to offer
most robust streaming service without price increases
Alexandria,
VA, March 3, 2010—Electronic publisher Alexander Street today
announced that its suite of
Music Online
streaming audio collections will triple in size over the next nine
months, growing from a current total of more than 250,000 recordings
to more than 750,000 by year-end. In 2011, Alexander Street’s plan
is for Music Online to hit the milestone of one million
recordings.
Said Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “In these
economic times we’re all being asked to deliver more with less. Last
year our music collections almost doubled in size without a price
increase. This year, we’re aiming to triple the size and still
not increase prices! We’re also continuing to offer the highest
quality—with a large increase in tracks from EMI and new content
from Decca and Deutsche Grammophon.”
Individual streaming collections in Alexander Street’s Music
Online suite that will double or triple in size include
Classical
Music Library,
Jazz Music
Library,
American
Song, and
Contemporary World Music. Libraries that subscribe to the
entire suite of Music Online listening collections will have
access to an additional 140,000 popular music recordings. The
publisher also announced that recording stream quality will improve
to 320kbps, and that soon, listening collections will be accessible
via handheld mobile devices. None of these enhancements will result
in a price increase.
New, lower price points are available
for Jazz Music Library, American Song, and
Contemporary World Music, and all new subscriptions to these
collections will come with unlimited access. Any library subscribing
to two or more Alexander Street music collections will also have
free access to the Music Online cross-search, which lets
patrons access all of their library’s Alexander Street music
collections from a single interface—pulling up a Mozart recording
from Classical Music Library, for example, together with the
printable score from Classical Scores Library, and a
biography from Classical Music Reference Library.
Thirty-day trial access is available
for libraries and teaching faculty. Libraries interested in trial
access or a price quote for the publisher’s new offerings should
email
sales@alexanderstreet.com or visit the Web site at
http://alexanderstreet.com.
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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning
online collections in the humanities, social sciences, performing
arts, and music.
Alexander Street’s Music Online is a fully
cross-searchable suite of hundreds of thousands of classical, jazz,
American, and world music recordings; scores; and pages of full-text
reference content. Alexander Street collections are available to
library and educational institutions via annual subscription or, in
some cases, outright purchase of perpetual rights. Not all
recordings are available in all geographic territories.
Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university
faculty may request trial access to Alexander Street online
collections by emailing Meg Keller at
mkeller@alexanderstreet.com or phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a
username and password.
Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 /
202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller@alexanderstreet.com
http://alexanderstreet.com
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