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October 1, 2008 Barrie Bramley Connection Economy, Ethics, Future Trends, Marketing and sales, Media tidbits, Ripping and burning - Digital entertainment No Comments

Here’s an interesting battle going on in the music industry, with Apple ‘threatening’ to close doors to iTunes, the dominant force in sales of digital music. (BBC has the full story)

If word gets out that music publishers are trying to stick it to consumers, and Apple is fighting to keep prices down on their behalf, well, there’s liable to be public backlash against the labels.

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