Imagine John Lennon on iTunes
August 14, 2007 | by Geoff Duncan
Apple still hasn't been able to work out a deal to bring the Beatles' music to iTunes, but it's just launched the catalog of John Lennon's solo material.
Apple's iTunes store still hasn't been able to work out a deal with EMI and/or Apple Corps. to bring get the Beatles' music online and for sale, but the company announced today that it is now offering a catalog of slain Beatle John Lennon's solo material. The material features the new digital collections Lennon Legend and Acoustic, along with Lennon's well-known solo albums featuring well-known songs like "Happy Xmas (War is Over)," "Woman", "Instant Karma," "Working Class Hero," and (of course) "Imagine."
"John Lennon is one of the greatest artists of our time," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, in a release. "We're thrilled to have his solo catalog available on the iTunes Store for the first time."
The tracks are available both at iTunes' standard $0.99 per track price, or (as part of the EMI catalog) available at higher 256 Kbps encoding and without DRM protection for $1.29 per track. For the next 30 days, Apple is also offering exclusive video content with purchase of the albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Sometime in New York City, Walls and Bridges, Milk and Honey, and the collections Anthology and Working Class Hero.
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Hot Sauce Collector on Aug 14th, 2007 at 11:43 AM:
The iTune store continues to add to its collection -- Apple made a bold move by opening its own online music. It actually inspired me to start thinking about opening my own online store, especially aftered I stumbled upon a WikiHow article called how to start an online store:
Starting an online store is not an easy thing to do—It takes a fierce determination, and a real passion to get started. You will encounter an incredible amount of resistance along the way. I started two online stores earlier in 2007 and it took several months before I got my first sale, but eventually my patience and persistence paid off. There are several bits of advice that folks should heed.
First off, watch out for pyramid schemes and scams surrounding akwardly worded opportunities to start your own store. There are several very credible services from venture-backed startups, as well as Yahoo, and Amazon on the market these days that you can use for your infrastructure. A little research on good articles about how to start an online store will turn these up.
Secondly, its extremely important to pick a market niche for your store that you are passionate about and have a knowledege base around. Your passion and enthusiasm for a given subject will be your leverage, your advantage, and the basis for which people will choose to shop at your store instead of someone else's.
There are a couple good articles that helped me to get started. I've spent alot of time deep searching google trying to find some real articles on this stuff:
http://www.wikihow.com/Start-an-Online-Store
http://digg.com/business_finance/How_To_Start_An_O...
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/...
http://www.ehow.com/how_136987_sell-stuff-online.h...