No Change Now For iTunes Fixed-Price Downloads

Thursday 18 May 2006 @ 1:44 am

The talk of flexible pricing for iTunes tracks has been going on for months, but apprently Apple still holds the card, for now.

Apple has apparently succeeded in persuading the world’s major record labels to re-license their content for sale on its iTunes Music Store (ITMS) for a flat-rate 99 cents - 79 pence in the UK - per track. To date, label executives have been keen to stress their demand for variable pricing - higher prices for new songs, lower prices for older material - but they’ve clearly been willing to let it pass this time.

via reghardware





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