7 posts and columns on singles

Apple Welcomes the Beatles to iTunes With a New Ad Campaign

in Media on November 16, 2010 at 7:39 am PT

The big news: Albums and singles. Apple has an ad campaign cued up, of course–you can see some inside.

Honey, I Shrunk the E-Book: Amazon Slicing "Singles" for Kindle [UPDATED]

in Media on October 12, 2010 at 6:50 am PT

No reason not to do this: Amazon is carving out room on its digital shelves for “Singles”–essentially, mini e-books for its Kindle platform. Or, if you prefer, you can think of them as very long magazine articles.

Dark Side of the Download: Pink Floyd Sues EMI Over Online Sales

in Media on March 9, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT

It’s standard operating practice for the music industry: Musicians sue labels, claiming they got screwed out of royalties. But from a writer’s perspective, it’s always nice when the plaintiff is a well-known act whose catalog includes a hit called “Money.”

The Apple-Amazon Book War Heats Up and Claims Macmillan as a Casualty

in Media on January 30, 2010 at 8:56 am PT

Apple has yet to sell its first e-book, but it is already engaged in a bruising battle with Amazon for control of the market. The most recent salvo: Amazon has stopped selling all books from MacMillan, apparently in response to the publisher’s plans to sell its books at a higher price point through Apple.

We Are The World! Sony, Michael Jackson’s Estate Working With iTunes, After All.

in Media on October 14, 2009 at 5:09 am PT

After Michael Jackson died, fans flooded iTunes to snap up his music. And contrary to an earlier report, “This Is It,” the singer’s final work, will also be sold by Apple this month.
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Now Available at iTunes: Price Hikes for Music

in Media on April 7, 2009 at 4:15 am PT

Apple has finally rolled out the “flexible pricing” plan it announced earlier this year at its music store. If you’re a casual music consumer, and that phrase doesn’t mean anything to you, let me rephrase it: Many of your favorite songs will now cost 30 percent more at iTunes.
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Another Critic Tries Stomping on the Long Tail

in Media on December 22, 2008 at 6:09 am PT

Chris Anderson’s influential Web theorem says that endless choice equals unlimited demand. But a new study argues that most people want the same stuff–and no one wants that unpopular stuff, period.