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Apple raises prices as music sales slide
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/6/2009
Apple raises prices as music sales slide
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Yay, Apple granted my Christmas wish ! OK, it was a little tardy, but that's not much of a surprise. Nor was the announcement by Apple that, in tandem with dropping DRM from all its tracks by the end of March (Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and Warner Music Group's labels had been the main ...
apple.com - 1/6/2009
Changes Coming to the iTunes Store
— apple.com — SAN FRANCISCO January 6, 2009 Apple today announced several changes to the iTunes Store ( www.itunes.com ).... Beginning today, all four major music labels Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI, along with thousands of independent ... (more) Changes Coming to the iTunes Store

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Apple: iWork 2009
iWork.com - 1/6/2009
Apple: iWork 2009
— iWork.com — Store Mac iPod + iTunes iPhone Downloads Support Search Meet the next generation of notebooks. The new... 13-inch MacBook. The new 15-inch MacBook Pro. Watch the new MacBook video. Hot News Headlines Read the latest news and information from Apple. The ... (more) Apple: iWork 2009

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The Price Of Going DRM-Free: Apple’s Hidden $1.8 Billion Music Tax
techcrunch.com - 1/6/2009
The Price Of Going DRM-Free: Apple’s Hidden $1.8 Billion Music Tax
— techcrunch.com — Nearly two years ago, Steve Jobs published an open letter to the music industry calling for the... death of DRM (digital rights management). He convinced EMI to ditch DRM back in April, 2007, but the three other major music labels held out. Until ... (more) The Price Of Going DRM-Free: Apple’s Hidden $1.8 Billion ...

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GMSV — ... iTunes’ 10 million songs will go DRM-free starting today, with the rest to follow by March. One downer if you’ve already assembled a substantial library of DRM-laden tracks from iTunes upgrading to the DRM-free format will cost you another 30 cents a track. The additional flexibility this move gives to Apple, the labels and consumers would seem to make it a good thing all the way around (except for those who just have to have the hot tracks when they’re hottest), but some observers question the wisdom of bumping up the price of hits as music spending is dropping and others ...

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