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Why it’s bad to cite iTunes as proof that micropayments will work

By Michael Becker | Published: September 23, 2009
Forgive me for post­ing Patrick Thornton’s whole para­graph with­out much in the way of com­ment, but I don’t think it needs much. Yes, Apple makes money off of micro trans­ac­tions on the iTunes store and does sell songs for $0.69–1.29. First, there is a huge dif­fer­ence between sell­ing a song for 99 cents and sell­ing an [...]
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iTunes not a money maker and wouldn’t be for news

By Michael Becker | Published: January 19, 2009
The other day, I spent a good half an hour jot­ting down my idea as to what an “iTunes for news” would really look like. Now, after read­ing a post by Pat Thornton, I’m start­ing to think I wasted my time. Thornton points out that Apple has stated that iTunes doesn’t turn a huge profit. The [...]
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iTunes for news: A quickly thought-up model

By Michael Becker | Published: January 17, 2009
Admittedly, I haven’t read any­thing about David Carr’s iTunes for news idea since the days imme­di­ately fol­low­ing the column’s release in the New York Times on Jan. 11. I don’t know where the state of the con­ver­sa­tion is at this point, but I’m going to write this anyhow. A dis­claimer before we go on. The [...]
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