Let the fire sales on digital music begin
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Apple has announced that it will drop prices on its DRM-free AAC downloads to $0.99, the same price as all other single-song downloads. Amazon responded by giving its affiliates a 20% cut of all sales.
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In the latest proof that the label is at least testing DRM-free music sales, consumers can buy gift cards from physical stores and redeem digital albums online. The bad news is that the music is also "anonymously watermarked."
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Retailer Play.com is planning to open its own digital music store which will sell DRM-free tracks for between 65 and 70 pence.
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New music industry data show the number of U.S. albums sold last year tumbled 9.5 percent from 2006, even as the number of digital tracks sold soared by 45 percent.
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Amid the music industry's 10-week sales spiral, merchants have a new concern: Aggressive pricing on high-profile releases is threatening to turn Black Friday -- retailers' highly profitable day after Thanksgiving -- into a red one for stores devoted to music.
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Let's see if digital pirates are willing to watch ads to get music.
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It&#39;s going to be a long time before digital music downloads challenge CD sales, even in the online world. That&#39;s the conclusion of a report by market watcher Informa Media Group (IMG), published this week.
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Sales of portable MP3 digital-audio players are booming and are set to generate US&#36;58 billion in revenue worldwide by 2008, according to a new study from research firm IDC.
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Amazon waited to offer digital music until it could sell unrestricted MP3 files, rather than songs with digital rights management. It may force Apple to compete on price and terms.
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By Kevin Maney  The online digital music business stinks.    ITunes, Rhapsody, Zune Store, Napster -- you name it. They're all failures.    The hype has people believing otherwise.
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TOKYO -- Sony BMG will start selling music downloads in the copy-protection-free MP3 format later this month in North America, as even the last holdout among the major record labels crumbled to the growing trend.
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Despite recent acquisition, DRM-free music should launch in the iTunes store as planned.
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CANNES, France  - Away from the headlines of job  losses, grumbling artists and falling global sales, the music  industry is trying new business models to boost digital sales  and offset the fall in CD sales.
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Amazon MP3 joins the lineup of digital music stores, selling tunes unencumbered by copy protection technology. Of course, that means some artists are simply unavailable.
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CANNES, France  - Away from the headlines of job losses, grumbling artists and falling global sales, the music industry is trying new business models to boost digital sales and offset the fall in CD sales.
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iPod? iPhone? Who cares? A survey of 3,000 British music buyers should make sobering reading for telecomms executives and label bosses this morning. It shows customers are far more savvy and discerning about the enchantments of the er, 'digital revolution' than vendors and Guardian newspaper interns might hope.â¦
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Eager fans are expected to line up outside stores when the new music-playing device hits store shelves June 29.