Add Topic 1, questions people. Add Topic questions 3 people. Add Topic 46 questions 1 person. Observing members: 0 Composing members: 0. Login or Join to answer. We had trouble talking to the server. Please try again. Your answer will be saved while you login or join. Live Preview. Older ». Have a question? Ask Fluther! What do you know more about? You've got knowledge matches! The labels, in short, had little power to control the price of the product they sold in the s even without the ISPs.
When Apple took over the distribution of recorded music, the potential for variable pricing became very real again because Apple iTunes became the single point of sale, and record stores were no longer in competition for the ubiquitous hits. Therefore, the best pricing system for the industry, in an era that has largely superseded the challenges of free file sharing music, is the most flexible.
It has been tried before, and in its latest version, as was suggested above, seems to discourage independent music makers from applying to Apple. Further, for many that are preoccupied with the devaluation of music, including top-level artists, this latest policy by Apple appears to do little good. If there is an element of artist discovery and exposure in the new measure, it does not seem to come free and the medium for this new pay-for-play is really not where listeners are flocking.
By Peter Alhadeff and Laura Green. With the internet and digital technologies driving rapid change within the music industry, articles about new releases and who has been hired and fired are no longer enough. Warner has songs from the country crooners Zac Brown Band at the higher tier as well.
The new pricing was a result of sometime rancorous negotiations between Apple and the music labels. Today Apple is also completing that transition. All the songs in the iTunes library are now encoded in what Apple is calling iTunes Plus, which is a verison of its AAC format encoded at a higher bit rate.
Users can now freely swap songs among their computers and transfer them onto any device, including a mobile phone. The changes come as the NPD Group reports that Amazon has achieved a small beachhead in the legal digital music market, with a 16 percent market share. Some rivals, like eMusic, and music industry analysts have suggested the higher prices come at a particularly bad time for the newly frugal American consumer, who had grown quite accustomed to cent purchases.
Amazon might now increase its share, since it now sells many of the same hits for a lower price. Update : Apple points to some oldies-but-goodies that are indeed priced at 69 cents, including songs from Elvis Presley and Bruce Springsteen. Note: this link will open iTunes on your desktop. I think Apple is looking at further losses in market share. I agree — horrible timing with raising prices. Amazon is gradually establishing themselves and this really opens the door for them.
Plus they have some awesome deals which blow away iTunes. I use the following to track the deal each day:. Much less likely to buy songs now. It will be interesting to see how consumers react to this.
It could be the canary in the coal mine for video. I have listened to the music countless times but have never witnessed a stage production.
To go and buy the individual CDs, iTunes download, etc.
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