Due to a lot of competition in the digital music industry, especially from iTunes, Napster has once again changed their business model. Napster, who was recently purchased by Best Buy, lowered the cost of their service to $5 per month.
For $5 per month, Napster users can download five MP3 songs and also use the on-demand music service. Additionally MP3 songs can be downloaded for as little as $.69.
Said Napster CEO Chris Gorog: “There’s no need to settle for 30-second clips to decide if you want to buy a song. For five bucks now you can have access to our …read more

I was listening to a really interesting story about variable pricing in the music industry on NPR’s Morning Edition this week. The price discrepancies on Depeche Mode’s new album perfectly illustrated the concept of price discovery.  
The new album by Depeche Mode, “Sounds of the Universe” is priced at a low $3.99 on Amazon, and $9.99 on iTunes. Because of iTunes recent switch to a Digital Rights Management-free delivery model (enabling downloaded songs to be played on any type of play, not just the Apple  iPod), this is the same product.
So what’s it really worth?
That’s what Price Discovery aims to determine. Technically, the …read more

Yes, Senator Kennedy is even on iTunes -
You can purchase a download of his 2008 audiobook
American Back on Track
- which he narrates himself.
Also available are different audiobook interviews from varying sources, most notably, Charlie Rose.
There are also audio books about the Kennedy family, including, Geoff Shepard’s
The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President
(2008), narrated by Jim Bond.
And, you can download Ted Kennedy’s Eulogy for Robert Kennedy (off of “The Greatest Speeches of All Time” album).
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