Real Sells for a Song
So Real has slashed their download prices in half (to $0.49/track, $4.99/album). This is surprising given that they pay $0.65/track and $6.50/album to the record company. It’s less surprising given that they want iPod users to start downloading music from the Real download store instead of iTunes, and they’re unlikely to go through the hassle and risk of using Harmony without some significant incentive.
In shocking related news, online music store eMusic has also made their offerings compatible with the iPod and cheaper than iTunes — by letting people download un-DRM’d MP3s. Like they have since 1998.
1 Comment
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Linkblog Atom Feed
Online downloading price war: Part II
A while back I expecting a downloadble music price war, and Wal Mart fired the first shot, and now Real Networks followed suit and dropped their download prices: Media software firm RealNetworks has halved the price of its music downloads in an aggres…
Trackback by Mayhem & Chaos Blog — August 18, 2004 @ 1:36 pm