• Borders may offer MP3 downloads at its website and is currently testing mix-and-burn stations in its physical stores. (Reuters)

• Given this month's typically weak release schedule, it may be to declare a moral victory...but album sales last week were down only 10% year over year. (Billboard.biz)
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• The drama behind Ticketmaster's acquisition of secondary ticketing company TicketsNow. (Ticket News)

• The new version of iTunes (7.6) works with 64-bit Windows Vista. (Engadget)

• Universal Music Group inked a deal with SendMeMobile.com. (Hit Search)

• What happens to EMI's unsold CDs? "The company is understood to have more than a million unsold copies of Robbie Williams's Rudebox album, which it will send to China to be crushed up and used in road surfacing and street lighting." (The Guardian)