Comments on: Shut Down iTunes? … and Then What? Refer Former iTunes Customers to Zune Marketplace?

By: iTunes Will Live to Sell Another 5 Billion Songs | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:24:22 +0000

[...] Not that it would ever have happened anyway, but Apple will not be shutting down the iTunes Store in protest over increased royalty rates paid to songwriters and publishers for CDs and digital music downloads. The Copyright Royalty Board Thursday left the rate for royalties unchanged at 9 cents a track, paying no mind to a proposal by the National Music Publishers’ Association that would have raised it to 15 cents–a 66% hike. [...]

By: darren cross

darren cross — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:26:05 +0000

“The music store has been a cash cow for all.” Really? I guess that’s one perspective, though historically only about an album’s worth of songs have been sold per iPod sold . So a cynic might say that the real purpose for iTunes, and the one that will keep it around regardless of price, is to provide a legitimate content source for a device that is used predominantly illicitly (be it ripping your friend’s CD or illegal downloads).

By: darren cross

darren cross — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:24:21 +0000

“The music store has been a cash cow for all.” Really? I guess that’s one perspective, though historically only about an album’s worth of songs have been sold per iPod sold . So a cynic might say that the real purpose for iTunes, and the one that will keep it around regardless of price, is to provide a legitimate content source for what a device that is used predominantly illicitly.

By: Ken Okel

Ken Okel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:05:53 +0000

Sounds like a negotiation ploy to me. The 99 cent price point is attractive so I can see how Apple doesn’t want to increase it but doesn’t want to see its profits go down. The music store has been a cash cow for all.

By: Ken Okel

Ken Okel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:05:27 +0000

Sounds like a negotiation ploy to me. The 99 cent price point is attractive so I can see how Apple doesn’t want to increase it but doesn’t want to see it’s profits go down. The music store has been a cash cow for all.