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Will Walmart's Entrance Signal Download Store Price Wars?







Will Walmart's Entrance Signal Download
Store Price Wars?

Will Walmart's Entrance Signal Download
Store Price Wars?
12/18/2003 09:54 PM

I've been wondering how long the $0.99/song price for music could hold. Already, some say that the dollar a song price is too much, and basic competition would suggest that the prices will get driven down over time. The floor at this point is the $0.67 that the labels demand from each song sold. So far, the various download stores have mostly (though not completely) held the line at a dollar. Sooner or later, though, you had to know that someone would realize they could get more attention by going lower, and who else but the leader in "everyday low pricing" Walmart? They're testing their new download store with songs at $0.88 per song. Hello, price wars! Of course, they know that they'll be losing money on this offering, but they see it as a loss leader to get people to buy other stuff at Walmart.com. So, if the price war continues, at what point will someone realize that, since they're just using the music as a loss leader anyway, they don't mind paying the $0.67 themselves. For example, Apple already says they're losing money on iTunes, but more than making it up on iPods. Wouldn't they sell more iPods if the music were even cheaper? It's an optimization question of "how low do you go?" until the cost of the music outweighs the benefit of selling more other stuff. However, if the music really is acting as incentive to buy other (high priced, high margin) goods, you'd think they'll eventually be willing to go pretty damn low.




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OK - got to London, took care of family business and now I'm getting ready for tomorrow night by catching up with the blogosphere.

One thread I've been watching carefully and with enthusiasm - is Jon Udell and Jeremy Zawodny talking about Flickr, Delicous and next generation web apps.

I actually signed up to talk about this very subject for Web 2.0 - so I gotta get real nerdy - and boned up on the minutia. One thing I can say is "I agree!"

In fact - "I wanna own my own data" was the title of the talks we gave at the FOAF confab two weeks ago in Galway, Ireland.... so I'm totally into this meme!

Here's Jon's summary of the thread so far.....

The other day, Jeremy Zawodny asked:


Is it just me, or is Flickr (currently in beta) one of the best examples of next generation web services?


Note that in this context, I mean "web services" in both senses of the term:

  • A web site that provides some useful service that I can interact with using a web browser.

  • An application with an API that has been exposed over HTTP using REST, XML-RPC, or SOAP.


[Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

Nope, not just you. I've been using Flickr, and writing about it, for the same reasons. Likewise del.icio.us. Among other virtues, both exhibit a really important one I haven't mentioned yet: you own your data.



What reminded me of this point was Steve Mallet's blog item entitled Applying Distributed XML to The Open Source Paradigm Shift, which says in part:


So, what happens when the software I depend on slowly shifts to Infoware that I can never really touch and that while still immediately practical gives me no assurance that it can't be taken away or misused at will without any recourse available to me?



I think we can apply the same principles to the data as we have to the source code. Google, eBay, Amazon, et al. are really only as useful as we allow them to be through the information we give them. We still hold the cards here which means we have options.

Exactly. When I think about meshing my own data with an infow are-style service, there are two key strategies I need to consider:

  1. The entry strategy. In the case of del.icio.us, it was easy to weave my own stuff into the service. Using the procedure I detailed here, tags that I maintain on my blog entries are automatically sprayed into del.icio.us. With little effort, I was able to create hundreds of integration points between two complex information surfaces -- my blog and del.icio.us. This was so effective that I decided to use del.icio.us for tag surfing of my blog.


  2. The exit strategy. With first-generation infoware services it's hard or maybe impossible to retract the information you've given them. Second-generation infoware challenges that notion. You can't delete reviews you write for Amazon, which is why I've never written one there. (Instead I write about books on my own blog where services such as All Consuming can find them.) But you can delete links you submit to del.icio.us or photos you upload to Flickr.



From the user's perspective, del.icio.us and Flickr support near-optimal entry and exit strategies. You can deeply and automatically mesh your own information with them. And you can undo that meshing. Participation in the services is thus an "at will" arrangement. If you maintain well-structured information, you can as easily mesh it with another comparably-equipped service. So the switching cost, as economists say, is low.



Now to be sure, deletion of links from del.icio.us and photos from Flickr is currently a manual affair. Neither API offers explicit support for wholesale automated retraction. And that would be a scary thing for any service with commercial ambitions to contemplate. But I'd love to see competition based on the value that's wrapped around the portable data we choose to mesh with infoware services, rather than on data lock-in.


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1.0

Interiors 3.4
EarthLink
TotalAccess 2004 2.0

DVD Studio Pro 2.0.3
Final Cut Pro
(Simplified Chinese)
4.1.1

DoCoMo Unveils
Ultimate 3G Phones:
FOMA 900i Series

MSDN TV: Special
Holiday Episode -
XAML Beyond the
Basics

RealNetworks Sues
Microsoft, Charging
Monopoly of Digital
Media

Microsoft Statement
on RealNetworks'
Legal Action

It's all in the
timing for Real

Study: IT workers
see raises ahead

Glaser: Bull in a
china shop

Man pleads guilty to
hacking into Acxiom

Free ArcSoft
PhotoStudio X for
.Mac members

Monday is best
served with sunshine

Newsfactor Network
Hit Piece On 'Hidden
Costs Of Mac
Ownership' A Load Of
Bunk

Rustic found
alphabet

Throwaway email
addies with
RSS-syndicated
mailboxes

Buy an Arizona ALL
CAPS ghost-town on
eBay

Diane Sawyer grills
Bush over the lack
of WMD.

Telesat to build new
broadcast satellite

CAAST settles with
five companies

Microsoft offers
accelerator for
Sarbanes-Oxley

ATI offers EazyShare
for download

Glentel acquires
Mobilcom Wireless

CertaPIN Stops ATM,
POS Fraud

Acomdata introducers
portable multimedia
viewer

Bias cramps Internet
Apple tunes
QuickTime for
wireless

Apple issues Panther
update

PSX is more than a
game machine, but
not a perfect hybrid

PhotoStudio X for
.Mac Members

RealNetworks Sues
Microsoft Over
Antitrust Issues

Blosxoms, Bryars and
Blikis

Microsoft's
antitrust saga
continues

Wireless Presence
and Messaging
Vendors Collaborate
on Interoperability

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