[opendtv] Re: Book: When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won
- From: Doug McDonald <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:00:19 -0600
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
At 12:24 PM -0800 1/7/09, John Willkie wrote:
This is great news, and I heard it on the radio yesterday. Jobs got
what he
said he wanted -- an end to DRM -- and what he didn't -- a recognition
that
hits (I think it will actually turn out to be 'new releases') are more
valuable than catalog.
Price reductions are always good. I hope/trust Rhapsody will follow
suit.
Ironically, it is the most popular catalog songs that the labels want to
charge $1.29 for.
The iTunes store has a good way to represent this graphically - the
popularity meter. The labels could just base their pricing on this
meter, which is essentially an indicator of sales for each track.
Unfortunately, most of the stuff i buy from iTunes is popular old
catalog tracks.
I've never even tried to buy anything from iTunes. Why do that when
it is copy protected? I buy from MP3s from Amazon and eMusic. At the
latter all tracks are $0.30, but of course they don't carry everything.
Amazon carries the stuff they don't, but tracks are often simply
not available ... I would have to buy a whole album for one track.
If iTunes actually starts selling the single tracks I want at
a reasonable price (even for some tracks $1.98) and no
copy protection, I would buy some from them.
Most of what I buy is very oddball stuff. Starting about 1994 I
started reducing the numbers of CDs I bought as the price never
went down to reasonableness. About 2000 our only good
local CD store closed down. I started buying a few CDs again
when Amazon started up, and more when their "marketplace" sellers
started selling used ones cheap ... and, more important, the
out of print ones I really wanted. Now I get most stuff as MP3s
from eMusic, some as MP3s from Amazon if they will deign to sell
to me what eMusic does not have, and otherwise as used CDs
from Amazon. I am buying about 50 times as much music
as I was 6 years ago, and paying a total of maybe twice as much,
average. This is progress due to competition.
Doug McDonald
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