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Recent bickering between labels and Apple over download prices has made headlines in the last week. Many see this as an issue of labels biting the hand that feeds them. Others see this as an issue of encouraging growth and responsible pricing in digital music. Many think uniform prices are integral to gaining more customers.
(Consumers don't like to be confused, goes the argument. We need flat pricing. Forget that uniform prices exist in few places in our economy, and that such a rigid pricing structure would usually attract the attention of federal regulators who seek out and crush collusion. We're told it's in our best interest to pay the same for a hot new release as a 40-year-old catalog title that sells 3,000 units a year. Sensible? No.)
Glenn has touched on this before, but he still says it quite well.
Posted by Casper at August 31, 2005 10:49 PM