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iTunes Store now infected with variable pricing, Amazon still $0.99
Engadget — As promised, variable pricing has now been implemented at the iTunes music store. Already, we're seeing most of top 10 singles hitting the top price-point of $1.29 (encoded as DRM-free 256kbps AAC). Interesting as Amazon's uncomfortably similar top 10 list has all these tracks priced at $0.99 (encoded as DRM-free 256kbps VBR MP3). A handful of tracks do hit the higher $1.29 price further down Amazon's list. Now, if you believe Steve (someone who originally ...

Simple no more: iTunes adopts variable music pricing
TechBlog — Linkpost | 4.7.2009 | Main April 07, 2009 Simple no more: iTunes adopts variable music pricing tunes One of the reasons that iTunes has flourished to become the top music retailer is that Apple made buying music drop-dead simple. You could buy songs for one predictable reasonable price - 99 cents - and automatically move them to your portable player. But the music industry never liked that idea much. Recording moguls wanted to get more cash for more popular music, and almost from the beginning pressured Apple to move to variable pricing that would pay them more for hit songs. In January, Apple caved in , and now you're starting to see the expensive fruits of that decision. Engadget has a revealing post that compares the pricing of the top 10 songs ...