Friday, May 30, 2003

RealNetworks launched a new online music service that lets subscribers download songs for 79 cents each. You have to be a $9.95/month subscriber to download any songs and burn them to CD. If you only bought one song a month, your actual cost per song (factoring in the subscription) would be $10.74. If you bought ten songs a month, the actual cost per song would be $1.79. If you bought 30 songs a month, your actual cost per song would be $1.12. So the point where it actually costs less than 99 cents per song is when you buy over 52 songs a month, then each song actually costs you .98 cents, and you would have spent $51 that month with Real to get to that level. Thanks to MacMinute and Wired for the news items. 6:30:09 AM

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