http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Although now we can actually blame Apple for the increase in ebook prices.]]>Feb 9th 2010 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
eBooks should be worth more anyways.]]>Feb 9th 2010 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
And at 29 years old with a career in the IT industry I still have yet to buy a single song off of iTunes (or any digital source for that matter.) Call me old fashioned but I like to actually own a CD.]]>Feb 9th 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
You wouldn't be buying an eBook on an ipad anyways. The screen isn't meant for reading books. E-Ink is about the only option these days for reading without serious eye strain, and the ipad doesn't have it.]]>Feb 9th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Glad I'm not the only one who finds fault in the argument that LCDs produce a ton more eye strain than e-ink. I am in front of a computer 8+ hours a day for work and a few every night at home for some personal web browsing and games and I never feel this strain everyone talks about. Guess I'm just lucky.]]>Feb 9th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
Try reading a book on screen. It's not the same as reading through an engadget article and a couple engadget comments.]]>Feb 9th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
I don't think it's misinformation, most people would say that reading from a book is more pleasant than reading from a screen. plus, it's well known that people do get eye strain/headaches from staring at a screen all day! Not everybody, but enough!

I read from my computer a lot (6 - 8 hours - school, typing, blogs etc...), but I also have a kindle, and the difference is night and day, just because you CAN read from your computer screen doesn't mean it's the same as reading from an e-ink display - because it isn't.]]>Feb 9th 2010 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
If you're worried about your eyes hurting when reading a book on the iPad... just take a break and surf the web, play a game or watch a video. The iPad does many things.

While the Kindle is an excellent book reader... that's all it does.

The iPad may not be the ideal book reader... but the Kindle is an awful media player, unless that media is black-n-white linear books.

Trade-offs, man... trade-offs. ]]>Feb 9th 2010 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/is okay, and in addition it's faster, and in colors.]]>Feb 10th 2010 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
Are you suggesting that people buy the eReaders because they want to use it for some other purpose? To some, reading is a major hobby. Having a device tailored for reading is not a bad thing. In this day of multitasking and multifunction, I have realized that it's not always so great to have an all-in-one that does everything in a mediocre way.]]>Feb 10th 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
Nope. But people seem to think that the iPad and the Kindle are in direct competition... don't they?

You're right... if reading is your major hobby, then an e-ink device is right for you. If it's not, you can get a device that does other things.]]>Feb 10th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
... of which only five songs are worth a damn.]]>Feb 9th 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
Seriously. Just buy amazon used CDs for $5.00 and rip to a lossless codec. You get the CD for cheap and you get superior quality audio files.]]>Feb 9th 2010 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 10th 2010 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/But they made more sales before! So it must be pirates! Not their ripoff prices!]]>Feb 9th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/This CEO is so smart. Let's raise his bonus an extra $20 million.]]>Feb 9th 2010 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
They get round? Or you get stupid?]]>Feb 9th 2010 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Crazy! The Earth is an oblate spheroid!
:]]]>Feb 9th 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
That's typical PC ignorance that is so rampant on this site. If you had any idea what you spewed, you'd have the facts behind you that Apple has enjoyed record growth in laptop and desktop units sold the past few years. 2009 was up 17% from a year ago and 2008 was up 21% from 2007. ]]>Feb 9th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
Next I'll be telling you that competition leads to lower prices ... wait, what?]]>Feb 9th 2010 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Ehm... how?]]>Feb 9th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
People are used to buying the same content in different forms, hardcover paperback, audio, and paying different prices for them. Hardcovers don't cost much more to make than paperbacks, but they can charge a cover price $20 more.]]>Feb 9th 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/The price difference here between a real CD and albums on iTunes is roughly the same as the difference between paper backs and the EBooks for the iPad, so I don't understand why the market should be different for books.]]>Feb 9th 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
I don't think there is any big conspiracy in pricing. Hardcover books cost more because they cost more to manufacture, because of using better paper, and usually have a set number made. Paperbacks on the other hand are cheap to make and usually are made in a much higher number, using cheaper materials, therefore have a much lower cost.

]]>Feb 9th 2010 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Feb 9th 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
Yes, because stealing music is the same thing as buying it, just without the inconvenience of spending money, right?]]>Feb 9th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/I don't steal music. When you download a picture and view it, but you didn't take it, would you consider that stealing? Downloading a copy of a song is the same thing. Stealing would be going into a store, cracking a CD case open, popping out the cd and sticking it in my pocket.]]>Feb 9th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
Tell me you're not really that stupid. When you buy a CD you are paying the LICENSE TO PLAY IT. When you STEAL music via a torrent, you are not paying for ANYTHING.

Do you not get that part? The part about paying for music in order to be able to legally put it onto your computer and listen to it? Did you pay the band directly for the rights to listen to the music? Did you pay the label directly?

No, you didn't pay anybody. That's why it's STEALING. You think bands get paid by a magical tree that grows money? How do you think this process works?]]>Feb 9th 2010 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/Someone new in the music scene worked hard to create a song. That same person will receive some money from the label, enough to live for a while. Then he will receive some quarters for each file/CD sold. Nobody buys it, and he stops being a musician because it's nonsense. Get the idea?]]>Feb 9th 2010 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
Several years ago (but not more than a decade) there was an analysis done on where musicians actually make the most money, and that's from live performances. Record / CD sales mostly go to the label. Don't know about it now...

The whole thing is kind of disgusting. After all, music in general is art. Major labels are big corporations trying to monetize on art. Leads to messy stuff. Yes, musicians should be able to live off their music if they are doing well. Record companies should be able to make some money too.

I think a true musician is more concerned with people hearing and appreciating their work and being able to survive comfortably. I think the middle-man (labels) need to be cut out, or cut down to size.]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/
who wants to read entire novels on an LCD? i've done it before (and will most likely do it again for out of print and/or impossible to find books) and it is a royal pain.]]>Feb 9th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-itunes-price-increase-led-to-lower-sales-recession/it's a viable alternative when the one-trick pony Kindle DX is $489.]]>Feb 9th 2010 3:51PM