Several months ago, I posted about the beta sign up for a little something called the People’s Music Store. I went ahead and tacked my name to the list, and was duly invited to join the beta launch.

The concept is simple and enticing: you sign up to create your own online music shop at The People’s Music Store. Then you personalise your shopfront and search the MP3 database for the products that you would like to sell. The developers have thought of everything; you can arrange and rearrange various playlists and compilations, keep a back catalogue, write commentary on individual tracks and albums, and there’s even a shoutbox!

Once your shopfront is up and running and the sidewalk outside is swept, the punters come in and purchase music from you. The more music you sell, the more points are added to your account and the more DRM free music you can buy from other shops on the site. Every time you buy from someone else, they earn points with which to buy music and you leave a little flyer in their shop window, letting their patrons know about you.

Perhaps the cleverest bit of functionality is the . You can nab a snippet of code that “shrinks your store down to a miniature size so that you can embed it on your blogs, websites and social pages. Using the microstore, people will be able to listen to the music in your store and also link through to the site to buy it.”

So, now that the site has launched, pay my store a visit or, indeed, start your own!

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