{
  "id": 2152116,
  "title": "Columbia House, the '12 CDs for a penny' club, is finally closing for good",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/columbia-house-the-12-cds-for-a-penny-club-is-finally-closing-for-good",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-20T14:10:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Quartz",
    "slug": "quartz",
    "url": "https://qz.com/columbia-house-closing-shutdown-082026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The company, which peaked at $1.4 billion in annual revenue in 1996, will stop accepting orders on Sept. 15",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}