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Archive for November 23rd, 2005

Tiered Pricing in the Internet Economy

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Joel Spolsky of Joel of Software fame wrote a recent article on tiered pricing at the iTunes Music Store (iTMS). His thesis is that record companies want to force iTMS to institute tiered pricing not to raise additional revenue, but to use the different prices as a signal of quality. If a song [...]