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(Via AppleInsider.)
In what could be a significant victory for its online music store, Apple is believed to have landed agreements not only to remove copy protection from the music of all major labels but to also allow direct music downloads to iPhones over cellular networks.
(Via MacNN.)
Premiere Radio Networks has announced that this weekend, a new, three-hour music countdown show backed by Apple will launch, titled The iTunes Download (link not yet functional). The show will be hosted by iTunes’ Director of Music Programming, Alex Luke, and be broadcast from Los Angeles to a number of Top 40-format radio stations. The show will air weekly on Saturday or Sunday, and will feature the 30 most downloaded songs in America, as well as interviews with highlighted artists. Luke will also draw attention to celebrity playlists, and iMixes, the playlists shoppers create in the iTunes Store.
(Via Infinite Loop.)
The University of Kansas has paired with Apple to try and get new faces into its concert hall. Free Philip Glass downloads for one and all!
(Via Apple Gazette.)
It was reported late last week that Apple is paying $16.00 for every $14.99 movie that it sells in iTunes under its new deal with major studios like 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., and Paramount Pictures…just to name a few. All the major studios are involved…and now its clear why.
Apple is calling it a “loss leader” and hoping that it will help them finally get ahold of the downloadable movie market that they so desperately want to dominate (I know it can be argued that they already “dominate” in this area – but we all know they want it to expand – and to dominate the expansion).
I can understand the want to do this – but I’m not convinced yet that its going to pay off for them.
What I really can’t figure out, though, is what’s going on in the minds of those pea-brain executives at the studios. Universal, for example, would love nothing more than push iTunes under a bus for music, but they’ve made a deal that could potentially give Apple the same iron grip it has on digital music downloads to digital movie downloads.
Full story here
(Via MacDailyNews.)
“A growing number of state politicians are proposing new laws to levy taxes on digital downloads, including music, video, and books, as a way to remedy budget pains,” Anne Broache reports for CNET. “Call it the iTunes tax.”
“Two years ago, a CNET News.com special report found that 15 states and the District of Columbia said that their laws and regulations meant that digital downloads should be taxed. A few months later, New Jersey joined that list,” Broache reports.
“Since then, more states have become tax-inclined. In 2008 alone, Indiana, Utah, and South Dakota have enacted laws reiterating their commitments to collect taxes on digital downloads, while Nebraska recently voted to send its governor a bill (PDF) that would tax downloads of books, movies, and music starting October 1,” Broache reports. “Others, including Wisconsin and Massachusetts, have formed groups to ’study’ new iTunes taxes.”
Tags: itunes, state governments, taxes
(Via Apple.)
Select movies on DVD now include iTunes Digital Copy, so you can import a free iTunes-compatible version of the movie to your Mac or PC. Watch it on your computer, iPhone, iPod, or Apple TV.
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
Apple and Starbucks are at it again, this time with a new Pick of the Week iTunes offer. Basically each week Starbucks will distribute cards good for a free download of a hand-picked song from the iTunes Store. Starting this week the first such song is the Counting Crows’ “Washington Square.”
It’s not entirely clear what you have to do to get a card, but presumably it involves a purchase. A new card will be available each Tuesday. Once you get a card you have 60 days to redeem it.
(Via Apple Gazette.)
PBS programming has been added to iTunes U. Films like The War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick and The Jewish Americans: A Series by David Gurin, along with series like “Meet the Author” (which features more than 40 interviews with top children’s book authors and illustrators are all now available. In addition Washington D.C’s Public Broadcasting Station – WETA – has provided a rich assortment of educational programming for students, teachers, and parents. Four other PBS stations have also been added including KQED WGBH, thirteen, and ideastream.
Tags: itunes, pbs, television
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