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@elfwreck. I think the real point is the price control and not the product. The music industry controled the album price by adding a few good songs filled with a bunch of junk songs. They added enough good songs to warrent buying the album. The additional songs have the illusion that there was value in buying an album.
In reality it was those few songs that people where paying for.
In thr book industry its the same difference with hardbacks and paperback. Selling a hardback gives the customer the illusion that they are getting more thus the huge price differences are warranted.
Apple controlled the price by controlling the market and keeping the price down. Albums wher not effectively priced they where overpriced. Think about it right now it is still cheaper to buy an album than to buy each song individualy. If the albums where properly priced the music industry would not be hurting but making even more money as people are more willing to spend a few bucks buying what they want versus paying full price for a few songs.
The point I'm trying to make us that apple squeezed out the premium the music industry was use to making and athast is why they are hurting. And now amazon is also threatening to squeeze out the publishers huge premium as well. The problem here is that while the music industry was taken unaware and consumers benifited from this.
the publishers have learned from history and are fighting hard to prevent this if amazon wins that means better prices for us all if the publishers win we not only pay the high prices of paper books but also lose the right of ownership
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