• simple eMusic starts out with a basic, credits-based model which allows you to download tons of indie music each month.
• busy To win over Sony and Warner Bros., they slightly modify the model to make full albums worth a little more.
• complex To win over Universal, eMusic will charge a variety of different prices for different songs. This is a bad idea. source

• » And credits are going away, too: To win Universal over, they’re going to have to charge 89 cents per track for some of their songs. While this is cheaper than iTunes, it’s also nearly twice as much as many of their other tracks. We don’t know what eMusic’s profitability is like, but this, to us, feels like it’s going to backfire. The changes are a little too extreme, and it no longer feels like they’re the cheap alternative. Can we lament the loss of eMusic (circa 2007) yet?

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