Tuesday, 9 January 2007

iTunes Music Store: resistance is futile

The A ociated Pre says the writing is on the wall: either your music is available on iTunes or you're irrelevant. The article points out that several artists that were resistant to having their music available online have given in (and flagging CD sales aren't helping).

However, there are still holdouts including Kid Rock and the Beatles. Why don't they want co umers to have more optio ? There are many reaso , though the article cites:
  • Piracy (which CD's really don't stop)
  • Not wanting people to only buy one track (you must re ect the album and not get the one good song without all the cra y ones)
  • Small profits from online sales

Will we see the Beatles catalog available on the iTunes Music Store? Perha when I'm 64 (get it? Aww, come on that was fu y).

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