[opendtv] Re: Book: When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:27:04 -0500
At 1:00 PM -0600 1/9/09, Doug McDonald wrote:
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.
Better sign up now.
More than 80% of the track on iTunes are NOW free of copy protection.
By the end of march it will be 100%.
And all tracks are still 99 cents until April 1, when the tiered
pricing goes into effect. After April 1 it will be $0.69, $0.99 and
$1.29.
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.
Competition is GOOD.
Now that copy protection is going away, the next shoe to drop will be
the prices...
Regards
Craig
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