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Need tiered pricing

I think downloads would be so much more successful with a tiered pricing approach.

$2.00 Latest and greatest (i.e. hot new single)
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$0.25 Crummy old stuff.

Inbetween would be less recent hits (say $1) and less popular but new songs, then older but decent music, and so on down.

I think the service would be most successful if most songs were priced around 30-50 cents. Who wants to pay more than $5 for 10 songs when you can get CDs from the music clubs at about that price. Plus the quality of downloads is worse, and you don't get a nice case with artwork, liner notes, etc. All that stuff does add value.

Note that all this assumes a liberal licensing arrangement (i.e. use it where you want).

It could even be based on demand, automatically.

At the current prices, I can't see that many folks ponying up for anything but the top singles.

Posted by: Dan__   Posted on: 03/23/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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