Yahoo Japan To Expand Its Online Music Service

Reuters: The Japanese online music market is heating up, especially after the blockbuster launch of Apple iTunes there. Now Yahoo Japan will expand its online music distribution service, allowing customers in the world's second-largest music market to listen to selected songs in full before they decide to buy. The new service with 100,000 available songs would be launched on Monday morning.
Yahoo Japan expects to earn ad revenue and commissions from song sales, while it also aims to bolster traffic to its fee-based operations through the new service that is based on an online radio format.