{"id":2265,"date":"2009-04-07T20:28:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2009-04-07T20:28:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:28:04","slug":"market_forces_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"Market Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning today, iTunes is implementing a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2009\/04\/07\/itunes-variable-pricing-live-more-countries-supported\/\">variable pricing scheme for music.<\/a> After years of pricing every song at 99 cents, Apple will now charge $1.29, 99 cents, or 69 cents per track depending on its popularity. My musical tastes tend to favor the midlisters over the new hotness, so this change probably won&#8217;t affect me much. And I doubt many Lady GaGa fans will be dissuaded from buying her songs because of a thirty-cent price bump. The record labels are hoping this move will give a boost to their balance sheets, but I&#8217;m dubious. Pop music is such a fragmented industry these days; even big acts like Coldplay will never sell the ridiculous amount of records that a Michael Jackson or Pink Floyd sold in their heyday. <\/p>\n<p>This kind of price variability might actually signal that the digital music market is maturing. After all, we don&#8217;t expect to go into a bookstore and expect to buy any book for $5.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning today, iTunes is implementing a new variable pricing scheme for music. After years of pricing every song at 99 cents, Apple will now charge $1.29, 99 cents, or 69 cents per track depending on its popularity. My musical tastes tend to favor the midlisters over the new hotness, so this change probably won&#8217;t affect <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2265' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}