Apple trying to negotiate movie-download price with
studios

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Pasted Graphic 5 "Apple Computer Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are both quietly negotiating with the studios to make movie downloads the next frontier, according to informed insiders," Anne Thompson reports for The Hollywood Reporter.

"Officials at both Internet trailblazers declined to discuss any such moves, but the evidence is mounting," Thompson reports. "There has been wide speculation that the secretive Apple could bring out a new horizontal video iPod device, with a larger screen, by the end of this year. And Apple is reportedly trying to negotiate a reasonable movie-download price with the studios."

Thompson asks, "What is the right price for a high-resolution movie download? $5? $15? 'The studios don't want to figure that out yet,' one studio digital executive says, 'not until digital downloads make real money, or Wal-Mart wants to get into that business.'"

Full article, mainly about Amazon, here.

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