I have to admit, I was surprised by this story - the iPod vending machines that have started appearing in some airports and hotels are doing quite well:

"We've done about $55,000 in a month in gross sales just for the one on Concourse A," said Leopold, executive vice-president and owner Business Traveler Services. "This is becoming the future for some high-end products in places like airports where space is at a premium."

My question is, what music do you put on one of these? Are they impulse buys by people who have libraries on their notebooks, but left their older iPod at home? Do people rush right over to the iTunes store? I have most of my music on my Mac Mini, so if I bought one of these on the road, I'm not entirely certain what I'd do with it - at least right then and there.

Update: Here it is, right at the end of the story:

Leopold said there are plans to add a music-download kiosk across from the Zoom machine on concourse A.

Still - it takes me awhile to ponder my buys from iTunes - while getting music from a Kiosk may well be easy in terms of the transfer, I can't see that it would be easy in terms of time investment (especially with people stacked up behind you).

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