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16:29 - No end in sight
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The iTunes Music Store just passed 300 million sales. Didn't they just hit 200 million, like, only a couple of months ago? And 100 million back in July?
One of these days that rocket's going to run out of booster stages. Isn't it?
(Graph courtesy of Kris, who pointed out yesterday that the Napster model of music rental actually does appeal to a certain class of music listener—there are people out there who don't care about owning their music, but like the idea of having access to an essentially unlimited music library to just skip around in at will, trying some, putting it back on the shelf, trying some more, without commitment or consequence. That's the kind of people for whom it actually does make sense to pay a $15/month fee and not worry about their music becoming inaccessible if their subscription lapses. The question remains: how many such people are there in the buying public, and how many prefer to own a selection of music tuned to their own tastes?)
UPDATE: Perhaps even more revealing is this graph, the per-day song sales totals that led to the above curve—or, in other words, the rate of change.
Even that appears to be accelerating.
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Brian Tiemann
