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From | "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@comcast.net> |
Subject | Re: iTunes |
Date | Wed, 23 May 2007 19:43:12 -0400 |
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I have bought entire albums at the USA ITunes. The most recent Trolleyvox,
Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen come to mind. All of the albums I have
purchased have been priced between $7.99 to $9.99, which, IMHO, seems quite
reasonable. (Although they do have albums available that are priced
higher.) The downloads are 128 kbps AAC files.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Hutton" <bobhutton@btinternet.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: iTunes
> 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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