http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/30/could-digital-music-royalty-price-hike-force-itunes-into-subscriptions/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:46:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/30/could-digital-music-royalty-price-hike-force-itunes-into-subscriptions/comment-page-1/#comment-830056 Royalty rate frozen, iTunes is saved! (It was never going to die anyway.) » VentureBeat Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:29:31 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=98518#comment-830056 [...] rate caused Apple to change the iTunes business model? Sure. Prices may have been raised for music or iTunes could have even gone with subscriptions, but the service would have remained [...] [...] rate caused Apple to change the iTunes business model? Sure. Prices may have been raised for music or iTunes could have even gone with subscriptions, but the service would have remained [...]

]]> http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/30/could-digital-music-royalty-price-hike-force-itunes-into-subscriptions/comment-page-1/#comment-829904 Could a digital music royalty price hike force iTunes into subscriptions? Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:24:44 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=98518#comment-829904 [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThere’s some talk today that if the National Music Publishers’ Association manages to increase the royalty rates for music bought from online music stores, Apple iTunes could shut its doors. That won’t happen. But it could force iTunes to change its business model. The Copyright Royalty Board is meeting Thursday in Washington to set a new price for royalties. While the National Music Publishers’ Association wants the rate raised from its current 9 cents a track to 15 cents (a 66 percent increa [...] [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThere’s some talk today that if the National Music Publishers’ Association manages to increase the royalty rates for music bought from online music stores, Apple iTunes could shut its doors. That won’t happen. But it could force iTunes to change its business model. The Copyright Royalty Board is meeting Thursday in Washington to set a new price for royalties. While the National Music Publishers’ Association wants the rate raised from its current 9 cents a track to 15 cents (a 66 percent increa [...]

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