Apple Wooing Smaller Labels

kalel666 writes "Apple has a big event planned for Thursday in Cupertino with hundreds of representatives from smaller indie music labels."

Cospiracy!!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a ploy!!!
It's from the RIAA, they will all go there, and...and..KABOOM!!!
It's all a ploy from them, im sure!

Re:making money from music

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone know what the current margin is on an iPod?

left margin: 3cm (centimetres)
right margin: 1 cm

When apple's done

[jabbadabbadoo]

...we'll have something called iIndies.

Re:Finally!

[baka_boy]

The major labels are already getting $0.65 from every track sold through the Apple music channel. I would expect that most of the independent labels would club baby seals for that kind of profit margin.

Re:Think Different, Think Nirvana

[the uNF cola]

Thin margin, but huge profits if they do it in..

VOLUME! VOLUME! VOLUME!

Sorry :)

Re:Yes!

[Anonymous Coward]

Sov now, instead of buying a CD just because of one track that is worth having, I would need to buy a Mac just because of one track that is worth having.

The CD looks cheaper to me.

Reminds me of a story

[mental_telepathy]

There once was a woman at the beach. Her son was swept away by the tide.
She prayed to God to have her son brought back. Suddenly, the tide changes, and her son comes sweeping back in. The woman looks up at the heavens and says "He had a hat!"
I am sure there is a message there somewhere...

Re:Death to Big Labels

[Gaijinator]

The Dinosaurs were big and dominated the earth and THEY DIED OUT.

That analogy doesn't fit very well. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded carnivores*... oh wait.

* (Yes, I know some dinosaurs were also wussy Vegans.)

Re:Three million sold?

[FosterKanig]

It was over 1 mil in the first week.
They reached 2 mil in 16 days.
They reached 3 mil in 4 weeks.
At this rate they will be selling only 1 song a week by the end of the year. And this means...

(everybody say it with me)
Beleagured Apple is going out of business!!!

Re:This Sucks Shit

[tbone1]

You know, that has worked *SO* well in Cuba. What a worker's paradise! I tell you what, we'll send you there in exchange for some boat people who want to earn their keep. I'll even give Castro a first round draft pick, an order of fries, and the rights to Micheal Moore.

(Sure, mod me down, like I care.)

Am I still drunk?

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a link to a MTV story on /. homepage?!

Re:Death to Big Labels

[dogfart]

The Dinosaurs were big and dominated the earth and THEY DIED OUT.

Q. What's the difference between the RIAA and "Jurassic Park" ?

A. One is a desert island filled with extinct man-eating reptiles. The other is a movie.

Apple Radio?

[poptones]

Never mind that - Apple Records? Hmmm, where have I seen that before?

Oh yeah... [schomakers.com]

Maybe they can make their new motto "From one old hippie to another."