Apple Welcomes the Beatles to iTunes With a New Ad Campaign
The big news: Albums and singles. Apple has an ad campaign cued up, of course--you can see some inside.
Dark Side of the Download: Pink Floyd Sues EMI Over Online Sales
It's standard operating practice for the music industry: Musicians sue labels, claiming they got screwed out of royalties.But from a writer's perspective, it's always nice when the plaintiff is a well-known act whose catalog includes a hit called "Money."
The Apple-Amazon Book War Heats Up and Claims Macmillan as a Casualty
Apple has yet to sell its first e-book, but it is already engaged in a bruising battle with Amazon for control of the market. The most recent salvo: Amazon has stopped selling all books from MacMillan, apparently in response to the publisher's plans to sell its books at a higher price point through Apple.
Sales of music singles hit record levels thanks to internet downloads
Sales of music singles have hit record levels thanks to the number of digitally downloaded tracks.
We Are The World! Sony, Michael Jackson’s Estate Working With iTunes, After All.
After Michael Jackson died, fans flooded iTunes to snap up his music. And contrary to an earlier report, "This Is It," the singer's final work, will also be sold by Apple this month.
