Hi Esther, I think you have a URL for everything! :)
Thanks for this update. (yes, the date of the switch is rather unfortunate.) I knew that ITunes was going DRM-free, but thought that it was supposed to take longer. Interesting about the pricing structure. I'm a little surprised, since Amazon is still sticking to the $.99 price, but I assume that's something they had to do to make it work. Take care, Donna On Aug 24, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Donna, > > If you'e browsing the iTunes store for music tracks now, everything is > DRM-free. This change-over happened on April 1, 2009 (I know, > unfortunate choice of date if you want to be taken seriously), and was > received in exchange for allowing the record companies to charge at 3 > price levels: 69 cents, 99 cents, and $1.29 instead of sticking to a > single 99 cent price for each track. Their argument was that they > could then release many older tracks at lower prices as well as charge > more for new music tracks. Before the changeover date, DRM-free > tracks were termed "iTunes Plus" tracks. If you purchased tracks that > were not-DRM free before the April 1 date, but these tracks were still > available for sale after the transition date, you could upgrade them > to DRM-free status for 30 cents. (All prices quoted for the U.S. > iTunes Store.) > > See this January 2009 announcement from Apple about Changes Coming to > the iTunes Store for details: > > http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/06itunes.html > > Cheers, > > Esther > > Donna Goodin wrote: >> >> When browsing in the ITunes store, How can one tell whether a track >> is >> ITunes Plus or not? I don't want to purchase anything with DRM. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
