Why Imeem’s Music Isn’t Free on Cellphones

How’s this for a music business model: What you listen to on your computer is free, but you’ve got to pay for the tracks on your cellphone.

That is the deal behind a new mobile music application from Imeem, the big music-oriented social network. Bits Blog reports.

Imeem’s claim to fame is that it is the first site that lets users stream most any song legally, paying the bills with advertising and the sale of downloadable tracks. But you can’t pick your songs on the company’s latest mobile application, which works for now only on phones using Google’s Android operating system.

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