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iTunes Music: Now Up To 30 Percent More Expensive
Mashable! — ... , a music download competitor, has launched a promotional campaign, offering free downloads and a vague promise of cheaper prices. ...

Making Sense of Apple's iTunes New Prices
Bits — ... or on Apple devices like the iPod and iPhone. All the songs in the iTunes library are now encoded in what Apple is calling iTunes Plus, which is a verison of its AAC format encoded at a higher bit rate. Users can now freely swap songs among their computers and transfer them onto any device, including a mobile phone. The changes come as the NPD Group reports that rival Amazon has achieved a small beachhead in the legal digital music market, with a 16 percent market share. Some rivals and music industry analysts have suggested the higher prices come at a particularly bad time ...