May 11, 2003

Apple's online music coup ignites a budding industry

"That Apple's store sold a million tracks in the week following its April 28 launch apparently shocked record executives, who said they would have been satisfied with a million in a month."
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"Singer-songwriter Janis Ian, a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee and vocal critic of her industry's anti-piracy tactics, is thrilled by Apple's offering.
'You can't call it visionary because they should have come up with this five years ago,' she said. 'It's ironic that a computer manufacturer is teaching the record industry the next step, and so far, that's what's happening.'"

Yup.

Posted by Diana at May 11, 2003 09:59 AM