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| From | Bob Hutton <bobhutton@btinternet.com> |
| Subject | Re: iTunes |
| Date | Wed, 23 May 2007 22:00:43 +0100 |
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Jaimie, what I was getting at was this: the price iTunes charges per
song doesn't entice anyone I know to download whole albums' worth of
songs on a regular basis . I know a few who will stump up for the odd
song now and again, but that's it. Do any Auditeers download albums
from iTunes regularly? I can't remember exactly how many songs you
can fit (on average) onto a 30GB iPod - is it 15,000 or so? If so, that
means it would cost $15,000 dollars to fill your iPod, assuming you
bought all the music from Apple.
Say an average album has 10 tracks - that means $10 to download it. By
your reckoning, you would see $8.60 of that. How does that compare with
a CD?
I suppose what I am saying in essence is that I agree with the guy in
the Chicago Tribune article - 25 cents does seem a fairer price for me
to pay for mere downloads as opposed to CDs. And if Apple charged a
quarter of the current price, would they then maybe sell more than 4
times as many tracks? I don't know the answer to that of course, all I
am trying to do is tell it from a consumer's viewpoint (my own and
people I know).
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