Apple, vrai "faux ami" de la musique ? - So_cult’ - ElectronLibre. " + artTitle.replace("-","") + " - " + "Keene Equinox" + " - " + "A&E" + " The recent shut down of peer-to-peer file sharing websites may have closed the doors to the popular website LimeWire, but you would not know it from looking at the students at Keene State College. It is hard to walk across campus without seeing students with their headphones in, listening to their mp3 players while walking to class, working out or just hanging out with friends.
The personal music player is so embedded in the campus it is hard to imagine where all of that music originated from, whether it be legally or illegally. The popular program iTunes, which allows students to purchase individual songs or albums for a fee, is as popular as ever. Its cheap song purchases and legality make it appealing to many music consumers. A majority of popular music is $1.29, while other music is priced at $.99 or $.69, payable only by credit card or iTunes gift cards. Sophomore Erin Zoellick uses the gift cards to pay for her music on iTunes. "It's easier to budget when you use gift cards. " Spotify vs. iTunes Is Major Labels vs. Apple. Apple iTunes Store: Big Sales, Small Profit | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD.
Apple is patting itself on the back for delivering 10 billion songs from its iTunes Store. And it frequently boasts about the number of apps customers download from iTunes, as well–the tally is now past three billion. But you won’t hear Apple boast about how much money it’s making from iTunes. Because there’s not much to boast about. Even at today’s hyper volume, the digital store is still running at “a bit over break-even,” the company reminded analysts during its earnings call last month.
Here’s the relevant excerpt from that call, via Seeking Alpha (thanks to Venrock’s David Pakman for pointing this out yesterday at the Digital Music Forum East): Maynard Um–UBS We have seen a number of industry revenue forecasts for applications and just given kind of the expected explosive growth there I am just wondering if that is still a break-evenish type of business as you look forward over the next couple of years? As Oppenheimer says, this isn’t a new development. Success of iTunes May Be Short Lived.
Subscription Services Will Replace Downloads as the Dominant Online Music Model Boston, MA - May 16, 2005 - While online music stores like Apple's iTunes have attracted millions of customers by selling downloads of songs or albums, changing market conditions will make subscription-based music services the dominant model for selling online music in the future. That is the conclusion of "Online Music: Will Napster Be the Next iTunes as Subscriptions Replace Downloads? " a new report from global technology research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics. According to this report, the shift toward subscription music services will be driven by a combination of changing consumer expectations as well as pressure from broadband service providers and record companies.
"The retail download model popularized by iTunes is costly and inefficient," says Martin Olausson, Senior Analyst with the company's Broadband Media & Communications service. Beatles iTunes Deal Pays the Band Directly. Illustration by Laura Medina Reuters is reporting that the Beatles are being paid directly by iTunes for digital download royalties with songwriting mechanical royalties being paid directly to Sony/ ATV Music Publishing, which controls most of the Beatles song catalog, according to industry sources. If this is the case, the deal functionally acts as a licensing agreement as opposed to a standard digital retail sale, which would split royalties between the Beatles and Sony/ ATV Music, significantly more lucrative than the traditional 20-25% “superstar” rate.
A source has stated that it is “absolutely incorrect” that the agreement between EMI and Apple Corps is a licensing deal, however it does not change the fact that the Beatles are being paid directly by iTunes—the first time a band has ever been. If this sounds confusing, here is a handy chart to help explain: Got news tips for Paste ? Labels Losing Money With iTunes Variable Pricing. Right before Apple finally implemented variable pricing in iTunes it wasn't hard for many to predict that it would backfire badly on the major record labels as they tried to jack up prices. So, it should come as little surprise to find out those predictions appear to be entirely accurate.
New reports say that the major record labels are losing revenue from variable pricing. Unit sales are dropping to the point that revenue is less as well. That's just bad business no matter how you look at it -- and totally preventable if they knew their own business. Plenty of people made it clear that sales would drop with higher prices, and it's amazing that the execs were unable to accurately predict how much. Sometimes when we question the motives of entertainment industry execs, people say that we're being unfair in questioning the "intelligence" behind those moves. Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair share | Digital Media.
Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are making preparations to one day collect performance fees from Apple and other e-tailers for not just traditional music downloads but for downloads of films and TV shows as well. Those downloads contain music after all. These groups even want compensation for iTunes' 30-second song samples. At a time when many iTunes shoppers are still fuming over Apple's first-ever increase in song prices , the demands by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music Inc.
(BMI), and other performing-rights groups, would likely lead to more price hikes at iTunes. For those reasons, composers and songwriters will struggle to sell their case to the public. "We make 9.1 cents off a song sale and that means a whole lot of pennies have to add up before it becomes a bunch of money," said Rick Carnes , president of the Songwriters' Guild of America. An Apple spokesman declined to comment. He stresses two points.