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How Labels And Artists Divvy Up Your Dollar Online

Posted by timothy on from the heads-i-win-tails-you-guessed-it dept.

Subliminal Fusion writes "Business 2.0 has an article that breaks down where that $1 goes when you buy a song from iTunes or other online music services. Key figures: the site takes .40, the labels take .30 and the artists get a measly 12 cents for each download."

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  1. Re:You're fogetting... by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's about the movie industry, but Fatal Subtraction is a good look at how these sorts of industries play numbers games. (Coming to America was a $350-million-grossing movie never earned "net profits".)

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