| Friday, June 6, 2003 |
12:00 - The Inside Skinny
http://www.gnutellanews.com/article/6830
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Here's the list of juicy details on how Apple manages its iTunes music content, how it treats the various labels, what kinds of sales/browsing stats it's seeing, etc. This info was given out at the Indie Get-Together a couple of days ago, and supposed to be under NDA; but CD Baby posted it, and then it was snapped up by Slashdot and others before they took it down again.
I'm sure Apple didn't really expect this stuff to remain secret (well, actually, considering how they expected the market to behave with iTunes Music Sharing, maybe they did). But now that it's out in the open, this stuff's certainly not damning; the worst it can do is maybe give potential competitors a baseline for comparison. Either way, it's a great read.
I hope whoever transcribed it meant "4.1 billion in the bank", not "41 billion".
Great stuff. I hope CD Baby doesn't get stiffed by Apple now, after this, though...
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