Royalty Rate Unchanged, Apple's iTunes Safe For Now  Discussion
in ' News Discussion' started by MacRumors, Oct 3, 2008.    1.
macrumors bot       Apr 12, 2001         Article Link   2.
macrumors 6502a      Feb 9, 2004     Hollywood, CA     There is
big news in that article - the rates for downloadable songs and
CDs may have remained unchanged, but a rate of _24 cents_ has
been established for ringtones. :eek:    3. Moderator emeritus
Mar 25, 2002     London, England     heh, I bet they were.   4.
macrumors regular       Jul 6, 2008     Dunedin, New Zealand
5. macrumors 601       Sep 26, 2006     I don't get it? What is
so special about a ringtone? 'Hey, let's buy a 20 second snippet
of a song for about 5x the price of the whole song itself'.   6.
macrumors 68000       Jul 25, 2004     Gloucester, UK     That's
what's so special. The fact that it's just a snippet. There's
very little additional work for the middlemen, so they're
entitled to a smaller cut (even though it's still too big),
leaving more