Sunday, January 30, 2005

Can music really be Easy?

The people behind EasyJet are now offering EasyMusic. The theory sounds great, but the details at the end of the article from the BBC is revealing about profit margins: just 4 cents per 99 cent track goes to Apple for each track sold from its iTunes Music Store. Unless you've got a fancy-pants player to sell as well, it looks like a risky business trying to compete. We'll see. There's perhaps a growing market for legitimate downloads, though, with more news of legal action against file-sharers.

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