Amie Street: Whats the Real Value of Music?
Amie Street: What’s the Real Value of Music? Friday May 29, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Most ‘paid for’ music services on the Internet rigidly set the price of songs they sell. Even though services such as the iTunes Store have recently introduced a variable pricing structure (blog)- it’s still some way off from being a totally dynamic system. Amie Street for example is one such service that uses a community-driven pricing system that reacts to how popular songs are. This in effect gives music fans the power to set song prices depending on how many people buy a particular song. Most new songs start off as free downloads, or very cheap, and increase in price as they become popular. The maximu
