No, iTunes And Amazon Downloads Are Not The Answer For The Recording Industry

«Over the past few years, you started to hear people in the recording industry claim that they were now "embracing" online music, but they were doing so in the form of iTunes. Even though they hated Apple's dominance in the market, they still felt that selling downloads was the key to the future. Not so fast. »
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