BuySafe.com Launches Online CD Store.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 1998-- BuySafe.com today announced the launch of Orchid Music (http://orchid.buysafe.com), an online CD store in direct competition with industry heavyweights CDNow CDNOW.com was an online retailer, founded in February 1994 by twin brothers Jason Olim and Matthew Olim of Ambler, Pennsylvania. CDNOW was initially launched as a telnet (text-only) service in August 1994, and then as a website in September 1994. and Music Boulevard. Orchid Music will feature over 200,000 music titles in an easily navigable NAVIGABLE. Capable of being navigated. 2. In law, the term navigable is applied to the sea, to arms of the sea, and to rivers in which the tide flows and reflows. 5 Taunt. R. 705; S. C. Eng. Com. Law Rep. 240; 5 Pick. R. 199; Ang. Tide Wat. 62; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. format, allowing music lovers from around the world to purchase hard-to-find albums quickly from the comfort of home. All content and background for Orchid Music is provided by the All-Music Guide, the worlds' definitive source for music information. "Orchid Music is the online source for the music lover who doesn't does·n't Contraction of does not. want to pay through the nose for hard-to-find CDs," said President/CEO Aaron Day. The store is simple enough for someone new to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the to easily use, and we've got enough selection and information to satisfy even the most rabid obscurities collector." To help kick off the store launch, Orchid will sell all items in the store at 20% off standard retail prices. The sale will last from August 10 to August 21. During normal operations Generally and collectively, the broad functions that a combatant commander undertakes when assigned responsibility for a given geographic or functional area. Except as otherwise qualified in certain unified command plan paragraphs that relate to particular commands, "normal operations" of , Orchid will feature sales on the overall top 50 albums, top ten by genre, staff selections, and the featured independent label of the month. Like all stores in the BuySafe shopping community, Orchid offers free domestic shipping via Priority Mail. Two-day and overnight options are also available. "This is a great store," said Day. "Our shipping is free, so there are no added costs to the consumer there. Hundreds of CDs will always be on sale, and we'll be price-matching on new releases. Our usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. , design, and content are all top-notch. There really isn't a better way to buy music online." About BuySafe.com BuySafe.com is a leading online retailer. Currently eighteen stores are consolidated into six neighborhoods within the BuySafe online shopping community. The company has been involved in Internet retail since 1995, and currently operates its flagship site at http://www.buysafe.com.
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