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| From | Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com> |
| Subject | Re: iTunes |
| Date | Wed, 23 May 2007 18:14:29 -0700 (PDT) |
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At those prices I'd rather have the non-DRM CD.
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mark Eichelberger wrote:
> 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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