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Apple has added the following shows the the US iTunes Store.
Apple has sent an email to podcasters letting them know that it has revised its Podcasting guidelines.
“Since you’ve got an active podcast listed in iTunes, we would like to let you know about a few valuable new resources: First, the technical spec has been revised and expanded. Check here for all questions or problems related to your podcast, or if you’re interested in enhancing the appearance of your listing with iTunes-specific tags. There is also an Apple Discussions Forum exclusively for podcast producers, located here: If you have a question or a problem that the technical spec cannot answer, the community of iTunes podcasters there should be able to provide valuable guidance.”
Yesterday we reported on a story about Apple UK possibly using a VAT loophole that would allow the iTunes Music Store to sell VAT free songs.
Apple has today denied this report by saying;
“This report is not true”
The Australian iTunes Music Store has now begun selling artists from Sony BMG at the same price as other singles and albums. It looks like Apple got their own way on this one then…
What appears to be an exploit in the tax loophole could allow Apple to sell songs through the iTunes Music Store without VAT tagged on. This could bring the price of songs down to 67p.
All Apple has to do is move some operations to Guernsey where a law allows retailers outside of the EU to sell goods worth less than £17 to UK customers free of VAT.
Apple is today adding further content to the iTunes Music Store, the content comes from the following networks, ABC Entertainment, Touchstone Television, ABC Family, ABC News, Buena Vista, SOAPnet, Disney Channel and some Walt Disney feature animations.
In particular the addition of ESPN and ABC Sports adds the first sport related content to the store, and much more is expected later in the month.
“Our mission is to serve fans wherever they are by delivering high-quality content across dozens of multi-media platforms, now including the iTunes Music Store and viewing on the iPod,” said George Bodenheimer, ESPN and ABC Sports President and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks. “We are thrilled to be the first content provider to offer sports content on iTunes.”
Additionally, free, ad-supported video podcasts from ABC News will be available, including daily segments from “Good Morning America” and the “World News Tonight” webcast, as well as ABC News Now’s “Money Minute,” “Medical Minute” and “Buzz Cut.”
The FT is reporting today that “music downloading websites” saw a 50% rise on Christmas Day, supposedly down to hundreds of thousands of people unwrapping iPods and loading them with tunes. In particular Hitwise reckons that the iTunes Music Store saw a 50 percent rise between the 24th and the 25th.
A new Firm by the name of What I Want Podcasting has promised to offer Podcasts for sale through the iTunes Music Store “in the very near future”. In particular the company will offer footage from Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival which takes place in early 2006.
“We have developed exclusive video invitations from artists appearing at the festival and created a promotional podcast concert series. We then distributed it throughout the Web, on iTunes, podcast directories, Google Video, and many more websites.” says Martin Elmore, president of What I Want Podcasting.
Apple has posted two new TV shows to the iTunes Music Store which are available free to download. The two new clips are:
Saturday Night Live Short - Lazy Sunday - 2m 31s
Sci Fi Inside: Battlestar Galactica - 21m 03s
Of particular interest, it is reported that the episode of Battlestar Galactica will air live on January 2nd 2006 and the free episode acts as a lead in.
“We are thrilled to be the first network to premiere our own original programming on the iTunes Music Store,” says Dave Howe, Sci Fi’s executive vice president and general manager.
In a few short days Apple have served up over 1 million Podcast subscriptions, in a press release Apple Computer stated;
