Music industry seeks Hollywood's 'windows' | CNET News.com
In the next year, labels will increasingly find ways to boost those figures by offering a large range of different products at different times, and through different channels."We will see tiered pricing in the online world," Hesse said. "It will be coming out in different windows over time, and will be much more sophisticated than just the 99-cent download that we have seen."
This doesn't make any sense to me. Windowing is another strategy based on artificial scarcity. Digital distribution kills that little market distortion dead in its tracks. Sony BMG is talking like they're intent on thwarting the customer at every turn.
