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Apple’s New Itunes Pricing and Drm-free Songs: the Results of Competition

4 Comments / Economics, Music, Technology / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Yesterday Apple announced two changes to its iTunes policies: they are introducing price discrimination, and they are removing DRM copy protection from the songs sold through iTunes. Resulting from extensive negotiations between Apple and record companies, these are two long-anticipated and welcome changes, and they are the consequence of competition in two different …

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Tunecore and Musician Payment

1 Comment / Economics, Music / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling In the ever-evolving (despite the efforts of RIAA) music industry, I find TuneCore very interesting. They have a fee-based music distribution system, under which an artist pays a fee and can have their single sold through iTunes, Rhapsody, etc. One of TuneCore’s most striking offerings is a flat $10 fee to distribute a …

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End-of-year Best Album Lists

1 Comment / Music / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling The inevitable “best albums of 2008” lists are starting to come out, including this top-50 list from Pitchfork and these lists from the three DJs at woxy.com. Some names show up repeatedly — TV On The Radio, Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, The Hold Steady, Hot Chip, Blitzen Trapper, etc. I have to admit …

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No Jazz & Heritage Lineup

1 Comment / Chicago, Music / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling I’m gonna beat Mike to the punch on this one: Weekend 1 of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will include Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, as well as my local band Wilco! It’s 24-26 April … hmmm, right now the calendar looks open. Have to see if I …

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