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data-file-height="224" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">February 1994<span class="noprint">; 31 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1994-02</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Jason_Olim" title="Jason Olim">Jason Olim</a><br />Matthew Olim</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">2013</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Acquired by <a href="/wiki/Bertelsmann" title="Bertelsmann">Bertelsmann</a>, Acquired by <a href="/wiki/Amazon.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a>, shut down</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Ambler,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambler, Pennsylvania">Ambler, Pennsylvania</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>CDnow, Inc.</b> was a dot-com company that operated an <a href="/wiki/Online_shopping" title="Online shopping">online shopping</a> website selling <a href="/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">compact discs</a> and music-related products. In April 1998, during the <a href="/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" title="Dot-com bubble">dot-com bubble</a>, the company was valued at over $1<span class="nowrap"> </span>billion (~$1.74 billion in 2023). In July 2000, it was acquired by <a href="/wiki/Bertelsmann_Music_Group" title="Bertelsmann Music Group">Bertelsmann Music Group</a> for $117<span class="nowrap"> </span>million (~$197 million in 2023); shortly thereafter <a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a> was contracted to operate the website. At its peak, it employed over 750 people and had offices in <a href="/wiki/Fort_Washington,_Pennsylvania" title="Fort Washington, Pennsylvania">Fort Washington, Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-then_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-then-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Establishment_and_growth">Establishment and growth</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=CDNow&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Establishment and growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>CDnow was founded in February 1994 by twin brothers <a href="/wiki/Jason_Olim" title="Jason Olim">Jason Olim</a> and Matthew Olim in their parents' basement in <a href="/wiki/Ambler,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambler, Pennsylvania">Ambler, Pennsylvania</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tech_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tech-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Initially launched as a <a href="/wiki/Telnet" title="Telnet">Telnet</a> service in August 1994, CDNow became a retail website in September 1994 using <a href="/wiki/Valley_Entertainment" title="Valley Entertainment">Valley Records Distributors</a> as a drop-ship fulfillment center.<sup id="cite_ref-Story_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Story-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With three employees, the company moved near the <a href="/wiki/Penllyn_(SEPTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Penllyn (SEPTA station)">Penllyn train station</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Gwynedd_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania">Lower Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania</a> and a couple years later it moved to the <a href="/wiki/Strawbridge_and_Clothier_Store,_Jenkintown" title="Strawbridge and Clothier Store, Jenkintown">Strawbridge & Clothier building</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jenkintown,_Pennsylvania" title="Jenkintown, Pennsylvania">Jenkintown, Pennsylvania</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-then_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-then-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 1994, CDNow claimed to be the first company that allowed people to buy albums online.<sup id="cite_ref-beach_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beach-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, it said it had over 140,000 different albums available for purchase on its web site.<sup id="cite_ref-beach_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beach-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1995, an article in the <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i> said that CDNow had brought the web "one step closer to the day when artists will market directly to consumers, cutting out distributors such as record labels."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1997, the company had revenues of $18<span class="nowrap"> </span>million and in February 1998, with 100 employees, the company became a <a href="/wiki/Public_company" title="Public company">public company</a> via an <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">initial public offering</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CDNow then embarked on a large <a href="/wiki/Online_advertising" title="Online advertising">Internet advertising</a> campaign, and was an innovator in preference-based retail recommendations, <a href="/wiki/Video_hosting_service" class="mw-redirect" title="Video hosting service">online video</a>, the use of editorial content as a means to promote interest internet <a href="/wiki/Affiliate_marketing" title="Affiliate marketing">affiliate marketing</a> programs, and <a href="/wiki/Email_marketing" title="Email marketing">email marketing</a>. On March 17, 1999, CDNow acquired its largest competitor, another Philadelphia area company, <a href="/wiki/N2K_Encoded_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="N2K Encoded Music">N2K</a>, whose online properties included <a href="/wiki/Music_Boulevard" title="Music Boulevard">Music Boulevard</a> and Jazz Central Station.<sup id="cite_ref-sec_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sec-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wired1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wired1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 1999, the company announced a deal to merge with <a href="/wiki/Columbia_House" title="Columbia House">Columbia House</a>, establishing a new public company jointly held by CDNow's shareholders, <a href="/wiki/Time_Warner" class="mw-redirect" title="Time Warner">Time Warner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wired2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wired2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-deseret_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deseret-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Decline">Decline</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=CDNow&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>CDNow was among the first of the Internet companies to show signs of struggle with the dot-com business model. On March 20, 2000, as the <a href="/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" title="Dot-com bubble">dot-com bubble</a> burst, <i><a href="/wiki/Barron%27s_(newspaper)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barron's (newspaper)">Barron's</a></i> published a cover article called "Burning Up", which noted that the company was running out of cash.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-allbusiness_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-allbusiness-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2000, the Columbia House merger was called off.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 2000, the company closed its London office to cut costs.<sup id="cite_ref-bizjournals_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bizjournals-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2000, <a href="/wiki/Bertelsmann_Music_Group" title="Bertelsmann Music Group">Bertelsmann Music Group</a> acquired the company, intending to combine it with its BMG Direct record club as a new venture called BeMusic, and eventually add <a href="/wiki/Napster" title="Napster">Napster</a> to the service. Bertelsmann paid just $117<span class="nowrap"> </span>million (~$204 million in 2023), a price that was down over 90% from the valuation of the company at its peak in April 1998. The founding Olim brothers received a total of $17<span class="nowrap"> </span>million.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2001, the company cut 40 employees, 10% of its staff.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 2001, the company closed its Japanese website and laid off 200 employees.<sup id="cite_ref-TH_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TH-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2002, Bertelsmann announced it would close CDnow's Fort Washington facility and lay off the company's remaining 33 employees.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that month, they signed a deal to outsource CDnow website operations to Amazon.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt2_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt2-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new deal retained a revised version of the BMG Direct model called the "Preferred Buyers Club", offering a 20% discount for club-edition records; all other music was sold at standard Amazon prices.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt2_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt2-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, the CDnow.com URL was redirected to a maintenance notice,<sup id="cite_ref-IA1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IA1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2013, it was permanently taken offline. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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