Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
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Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
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Re: Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
#2It's about time.
Now let's see the same trend in eBook pricing. Completely inflated for the moment.
Re: Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
#3It's about time. Now let's see the same trend in eBook pricing. Completely inflated for the moment.
Tough for them to do anything about that because of agency pricing imposed by all the major publishers (even Random House recently got on board). Not sure why that's not collusion, but there you go.
Separately, with free cloud locker storage and now lower prices, should anyone be buying songs from iTunes anymore?
Re: Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
#4Seems to me that iTunes captured the market because of the amazing integration with music devices and not the price point. Until someone beats them at that, I think things will continue as they are.
I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means, but nobody else has produced a device that makes it so easy to find, buy, and listen to music on the go.
Amazon's Cloud Player is a good start, since it eliminates having to load the music on to the device, but the player still needs some polish.
Re: Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
#5It's about time. Now let's see the same trend in eBook pricing. Completely inflated for the moment.
Tough for them to do anything about that because of agency pricing imposed by all the major publishers (even Random House recently got on board). Not sure why that's not collusion, but there you go. Separately, with free cloud locker storage and now lower prices, should anyone be buying songs from iTunes anymore?
Yeah, let the authors sidestep the publishers as time goes on. They'll incur less overhead (dozens of unnecessary salaries that don't exist), keep more money and sell their product cheaper. The publishers will have to fall into line and sell the product at a price more in line with its value.
Re: Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
#6Seems to me that iTunes captured the market because of the amazing integration with music devices and not the price point. Until someone beats them at that, I think things will continue as they are. I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means, but nobody else has produced a device that makes it so easy to find, buy, and listen to music on the go. Amazon's Cloud Player is a good start, since it eliminates having to load the…
I buy music almost exclusively through Amazon now solely because of the DRM nonsense iTunes puts on its files. I have several albums that, when I try to play them on my media computer through iTunes home sharing, gives me the "This album is not authorized to play on this computer. Please deactivate one of your authorized computers to add it to this one." Problem is, that 2 of the authorized computers are in the scrap heap now, and the other ones I still use.
Whatever convenience buying music directly through my iPhone would offer is more than canceled out by this inconvenience. I'll admit that I'm not the kind of music consumer that buys single mp3s though — full album or nothing for me — so I'm biased in that way.
Re: Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
#7Seems to me that iTunes captured the market because of the amazing integration with music devices and not the price point. Until someone beats them at that, I think things will continue as they are. I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means, but nobody else has produced a device that makes it so easy to find, buy, and listen to music on the go. Amazon's Cloud Player is a good start, since it eliminates having to load the…
I buy music almost exclusively through Amazon now solely because of the DRM nonsense iTunes puts on its files. I have several albums that, when I try to play them on my media computer through iTunes home sharing, gives me the "This album is not authorized to play on this computer. Please deactivate one of your authorized computers to add it to this one." Problem is, that 2 of the authorized computers are in the scrap…
maybe "deauthorize all" and re-auth the computers you still use
Re: Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
#8Seems to me that iTunes captured the market because of the amazing integration with music devices and not the price point. Until someone beats them at that, I think things will continue as they are. I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means, but nobody else has produced a device that makes it so easy to find, buy, and listen to music on the go. Amazon's Cloud Player is a good start, since it eliminates having to load the…
Amazon is positioning themselves pretty well as the iTunes of Android, though. Most phones have Amazon MP3 preinstalled and the buying experience is basically as smooth as you'd like. It is like iTunes, but better, cause you don't ever have to use iTunes.
Re: Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I buy music almost exclusively through Amazon now solely because of the DRM nonsense iTunes puts on its files. I have several albums that, when I try to play them on my media computer through iTunes home sharing, gives me the "This album is not authorized to play on this computer. Please deactivate one of your authorized computers to add it to this one." Problem is, that 2 of the authorized computers are in the scrap…
maybe "deauthorize all" and re-auth the computers you still use
I'm sure there's a quick fix for the iTunes purchased albums I still have, but the long-term solution is definitely to avoid purchasing from iTunes. For me, at least.
Re: Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
#10I wonder why they settled on '69'.