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Apple Discussing TV-Music Bundle With Record Labels

By Tom Dotan
· · Source: Financial Times

Apple is trying to give customers good reasons to sign up for yet another subscription streaming service. Their angle, according to this report from the Financial Times , is to bundle it with its $10 a month music service. Executives from at least one label are wary, the piece says, worried that this could be a repeat of the iTunes 99-cent era where many labels felt they got the raw end of the...

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