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Originally posted by baltassoc
I didn't realize that iTunes had the ability to force an entire album purchase. Which makes the AC/DC thing even weirder. I have no idea what the licensing terms look like, but it seems likely to me that the royalty stream to both the artist and the record company would be similar for a purchase off of iTunes as the sale of a physical CD (yeah, its cheaper to buy off iTunes, but you've got no packaging, shipping, breakage, etc. costs).
Of course, the flip side of the forcing buying an album to get a song equation is that I (probably pretty typically) am unlikely to shell out $10-18 for a single song, but I don't even think about the $1 a song they charge me for a single song. So I'd suspect on average they're losing revenue.
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I think they’re selling enough Ipods right now (even though sales have dropped recently) that Apple’s doing OK even if they lose money on the music.
Whats really annoying is that the Ipod charger does not work with the smaller Ipods. You have to buy/use multiple car chargers. That’s just gouging.
