E-Books Meet Sheet Music: Musicnotes.com Thrives in Dreary Dot Com Climate

MADISON, WI – December 15, 2000 – Musicnotes.com, an online sheet music store featuring a cutting-edge technology that allows musicians to see, hear, and print digital sheet music on their home computers, continues to thrive in an otherwise dreary dot com climate. The Madison, WI based sheet music store has experienced record high digital sheet music sales since launching a redesigned site in May. Musicnotes.com is entering into its third full year of operation.

The total digital sheet music orders placed on the site and the number of new customers have nearly quadrupled since June. Musicnotes.com has seen its net revenue more than triple during the same time period. By offering a definitive e-commerce service that features the instant delivery of sheet music to consumers--as opposed to many sites where customers can order an item such as kitty litter and wait for it to eventually show up--Musicnotes.com continues to move ahead in cyberspace.

Through distribution agreements with numerous publishers including Warner Bros. and Mel Bay, Musicnotes.com offers over ten thousand digital sheet music titles ranging from James Taylor and George Gershwin to Christina Aguilera and Beethoven. The site currently features an extensive selection of Holiday sheet music celebrating Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa.    

As the only online sheet music store/website to offer interactive sheet music, Musicnotes.com features the Musicnotes Viewer, which automatically downloads in less than 10 seconds and allows musicians, educators and fans to instantly see, hear, and print free sheet music samples via the Internet. Customers can then purchase and download the entire piece of sheet music using a secure online commerce engine.

The free Musicnotes Player allows customers to interact with a selected piece of music. The music notation and lyrics light up in time with the music, synchronizing note-for-note with either a MIDI performance or a real performance played from a CD. The user can change the speed of the piece in order to practice at any pace. As an educational aid, every symbol on the music page is linked to a music encyclopedia which enables the user to select a symbol, such as a guitar bend, and specifically hear it or learn how to play it.

Additionally, if a customer can't find what they are looking for in digital format, Musicnotes.com provides an extensive selection of over 200,000 traditional music books and single sheets.

Media Contact: Patrick Hayes
hayes@musicnotes.com
608-277-9772 ext. 212
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