TDPL is an Amazon Kindle bestseller

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:37:18 -0400, Kagamin <spam at here.lot> wrote:

> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>
>> > The increase is not exorbitant.  From what I
>> > remember it was 1.29 instead of .99 per song.
>>
>> Interesting. Yea, I guess my info on that is out of date then. Last I  
>> heard
>> they had just started adding the option (to some songs) of paying $0.30
>> extra to get a DRM-less lossless version. Glad to hear that turned out  
>> to
>> just be a stepping stone.
>
> ?
> 0.99+0.30=1.29
>
> They just removed an option to dl drm version at a lower price.

There are still some songs at 0.99, and some at 0.69 I think too.  It  
depends on what the artist wants to charge.

But I think also, songs you bought with DRM at 0.99 are free to update to  
DRM-free versions, whereas as Nick stated (I didn't know this), it was .30  
to remove DRM from it previously.

The best part about it however, is that if you as an artist want the  
benefit of having your music on the most popular download site, you have  
to make your music available DRM-free.  That's a huge step, and it proves  
that DRM-free downloadable music is a viable business option.

I've always not been a fan of DRM, even though I am respectful of  
copyright law.  It's my legal copy, I should be able to play it on  
whatever I want, whenever I want.  DRM just restricts fair-use, it doesn't  
stop illegal copying.  Especially with music, where a pirate can spend $20  
to get a CD they can rip the tracks from and make perfect DRM-free copies  
to sell.  I think the continued success of iTunes shows this is true.

-Steve