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iTunes Indie Meeting Notes
BWJones writes "The CD baby! site contains notes taken from the indie music meeting recently held at Apple. Interesting statistics revealed were that there are about 500k songs/week being downloaded from the iTunes Music store and that 45% of songs are being purchased as albums. Other interesting items of note are that Apple is treating everyone as equvalents in that all labels receive equal treatment with the same deal, the same agreements and you work with the same team of people. What's more is that Apple cuts a check EVERY MONTH which is huge for the smaller labels." Wired has another story about iTunes which notes that what Jobs taketh away, the community is bringing back.
I don't know which was faster, the information about the iTunes store on the CDBaby site being pulled or the obligatory post about how slow it is to copy files on an 8600/300.
I saw a similar story yesterday on a popular community-driven geek news website.
You should check it out sometime!
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Middle English chek, from Middle French eschec
Seems to suggest that "check" is the correct modern spelling and that people writing "cheque" are just weird, or "chiefly British."
Besides, incorrect spelling is one of the cornerstones of Slashdot, like incorrect grammer. (How many people will catch that, I wonder?) Complaining about it is so passé.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
It's my prediction that they'll start seeing album sales drop rapidly as people finish "switching" their music collection to the new format. Once you've got all your old vinyl in AAC, you'll probably not want to risk the $10 on a new, untested album.
DataSquid.net, a little about me.
...whoever comes along with a 35 cent version of a similar service using another format [vorbis.com] and a better bitrate?
Going broke on the difference between the 35 cent retail and the 65 cents label royalty per track is a fairly predictable first consequence, one would think
This is no reflection on the accuracy or your post. I pretty much agree with you.
I just found it to be humorous that the quote at the bottom of the page said, "The bogosity meter just pegged," when I read your post.
I just had to share that, at the risk of loging karma.
Just be sure to wear the gold uniform when you beam down -- you know what happens when you wear the red one.
I think the world explodes or something. I'm starting a band just so I can find out.
Department of Homeland Security: Removing the rights real patriots fought and died for since 2001
I remember having a version of Quicken back in the early '90's. At the end of the manaul, there were several appendices, one was entitled "Notes for Canadian Users". Most of it was concerned with differences in interest calucations (360 vs 365 day years etc.) but they close by saying "Also, you will notice this the only page in the manual on which the word "cheque" is spelled corectly."
They probably meant $410 billion. It was a typo.
I think Entomology, I think "the study of big talking trees." But maybe that's just me.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Meanwhile, VA Linux has $41 dollars.
And if you do this on a special day of the week, a certain simian creature will come out of a special orifice of you body!
I can't afford a sig!
Some guy named Sturgeon, I seem to recall.