Golden Egg = One Dead Goose
The music industry never learns. We are just going to have to accept this as fact. Case in point:
Some leading music labels are in talks with online retailers to raise wholesale prices for digital music downloads in an attempt to capitalise on burgeoning demand for legal online music.
Music industry executives said introductory wholesale prices for digital tracks had been set low to stimulate demand, but Apple’s success had prompted concern that they may now be too low.
Why, yes. I can see how that – Hunh?
What I’m getting from this, basically, is that now that the music industry has watched digital downloads sell like hotcakes, they figure it means that they’re priced too low.
In other words – the goose is laying golden eggs. There is no sign of the goose ever stopping laying golden eggs. But if we pounce on the goose and kill it now, maybe we can get a whole lot of gold at once and not be pestered with just collecting golden eggs for the rest of our lives.
I say unto this: Feh.