Monthly Archive for September, 2007

Well, this news kind of takes a little of the sting out of losing Epitaph from the eMusic lineup. It looks like eMusic is going to start selling audiobooks. DRM-free, of course, and considerably cheaper than iTunes as well. It sounds like they’re going to have The Daily Show’s book so I think I’ll need to pick that up. Also, I heart David Pakman. From the article:

“Our customers don’t steal music,” said David Pakman, chief of eMusic, of the company’s 300,000 subscribers, who pay from $9.99 (for 30 songs) to $19.99 (for 75 songs). “A lot of them are technically sophisticated, but they’re not prone to piracy.”

A media company CEO who doesn’t assume that their customers are thieves? Wha? What a novel concept!

Bleh, just found out that Epitaph Records left eMusic. That’s a major disappointment, especially since I’d been planning on picking up some Tom Waits this evening. Hopefully this isn’t a sign of things to come with other labels as well. It’s interesting to note from that article that apparently eMusic subscribers buy 20 times more music than iTunes customers. You’d think that would be attractive to labels but it seems like everyone is convinced that 99 cents/track is the only reasonable price for digital music. Rubbish.