Will Tiered Pricing Threaten iTunes' Music-Biz Dominance?

Kit Eaton — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:28:36 -0400

As promised months ago, Apple has implemented a tiered pricing structure for iTunes music tracks today. But with many of the same tracks available from Amazon at a lower price, and a fresh report showing that Amazon's music store is slowly catching up with iTunes, this could be bad timing for Apple.

Apple's iTunes Drops DRM, Adds Tiered Pricing, 3G Downloads

Kit Eaton — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:41:03 -0500

This morning's rumors were almost exactly bang on. As a surprise "one more one more thing" at the end of his Macworld Keynote, Phil Schiller dropped the news that iTunes was going to drop digital rights management for its music track library.

Schiller started by pointing out that iTunes is the number one music retailer, the world's largest media library, and has sold over six billion songs in six years to over 75 million iTunes account holders.