Radiohead Hits Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes
Radiohead completed its transition to distribution channels like iTunes and Amazon without any major issues. As of today, January 5, 2008, you can get the band album for $9.99 USD on iTunes or Barnes and Noble for $13.99 USD or even Amazon for $7.99 USD.
The price seem to be kind of high because up until a couple weeks ego you could get this album for free, well they requested that you pay what you think it was worth which for some people was nothing. Did you download it? How much did you pay for it?
Radiohead released their album In Rainbows for download around October 2007, the idea was to get people to pay what they though was worth with ended up being somewhere in the $2 USD per complete album download. The so-called “experiment” was a success according to the band, leaving this approach as a good option for other bands to follow their example.
The music industry has had problems keeping up with their traditional way of doing
business, mainly because of new distributions channel like iTunes among others. These new approach combined with the digital right management (DRM) issues the music industry is having are bringing changes.
Apple is claimed to have a monopoly in the music download industry, hard enough to being sued for monopoly and have other companies taking their content else where to gain control again over their media. Add all these together and I see strong controversies on 2008 about distribution channels.
So far my music collection is made of 60% legally downloaded music, the rest is CD’s that I had and I ripped them to my Mac. In 2007 I didn’t bought a single hard copy of music and spend little over $200 on music, the trend is pretty much like that, less people are buying CD’s and more are downloading from the web.
I will be monitoring the industry and writing more about peak industry news that are driving changes and will affect us as consumers from now on. Stay tuned for more great content right here at LwEEs.com. Images taken from radiohead.com and barnesandnoble.com
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