Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Variable Song Pricing Hits Amazon's and Walmart's Digital Music Stores [Digital Music]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/PuevwfZg09M/variable-song-pricing-hits-amazons-and-walmarts-digital-music-stores

Now that Apple is slowly and quietly switching all its freshly DRM-free tracks to a popularity-based variable pricing scheme, we almost didn't notice that Walmart and Amazon have taken the same step.

Amazon now has prices ranging from a low of $0.79 to a high of $1.29, the same as iTunes, and its highest priced tracks now make up ten of its top 100 list. Walmart, for its part, is a little cheaper, from a low of $0.64 to a high of $1.24. It looks like the music labels have finally gotten their way in this battle. [Electronista]