iTunes Plus To Drop DRM Free Price And Add Indies
As early as this week iTunes Plus is expected to drop the price of all DRM free tracks to 99
cents from the current $1.29. Also on tap is the long over due addition of more indie label product to the DRM free category.
Hypebot and indie labeks have been calling on Job’s to keep his promise by adding as much DRM free product as possible. But it appears the successful launch of Amazon’s all mp3 store may be the real motivator. UPDATE: See details from Scottish indie Moojuice in comments.
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That is correct. I co-own a small indie label in Scotland and we got notified by our digital distributor (IODA in San Francisco) a couple of days ago that our back catalogue (Keith Anderson, The Scottish Enlightenment, Dan Lyth etc..)was being upgraded to ITunes Plus and right enough today at no extra cost it has been. A great relief for a small label like us. Only Itunes and Emusic bring in any money from downloads but we always had an issue with putting up ITunes links because we could never recommend 128k DRM’d files. We hate them. This is good news. Means we can provide Amazon and Itunes links to high quality drm free files. A small but significant leap forward
did they drop the sound quality back down?
My understanding is that the quality remains the same higher bit rate, but I’ll keep you posted.