Like it or not, the iTunes Music Store is a juggernaut of momentum. In the first week alone, Apple has been able to move 125,000 copies of films under the Disney umbrella. Those 75 titles are really moving, and it's a classic example of Jobs' lead by example style market dominance. With Steve on the board of Disney these days, it was obviously easier for Jobs to lasso the Dsiney content in and bring it to iTMS. Now, Disney is predicting a $50 million dollar boost to revenue during its first year selling movies via iTunes and, that will be a really difficult fact to ignore when Steve goes courting the other studios. It's no longer a question of "if" Hollywood will consent to the iTunes model, but rather "when".
[via Reuters]
1. I'm curious as to how many movies Amazon moved in it's first week?
Posted at 11:01AM on Sep 20th 2006 by Musica360.com