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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Not so. You can buy the whole album at the iTunes store for $9.99 - 22 tracks and a 'digital booklet', whatever that is. That's the same price as the discounted album at Amazon.
The digital form is still more expensive than it should be. The music labels twisted Apple's arm over price because Apple wanted the tracks DRM free. Really the digital prices should be less than the physical form, for the same reason ebooks should be less than the physical form - you can't resell iTunes music or ebooks.
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I think we agree on much.
BTW, I didn't see Relapse available as an album purchase on iTunes, but assume you are right - this is the way most albums are marketed there.
But my point is, you are getting lower quality, and no physical media, for the same price as a CD.
At the same time, the publisher/seller is saving the cost of printing, packaging, packing, storing, shipping, sales help, etc.. It seems that at least some of the saving would be passed to the consumer, in a free market. And not just because the end user can't resell the product.
Instead, if it wasn't for piracy and Apple, the prices for digital content would have been higher.
The same applies to e-books vs. paper books.