iTunes And Amazon Continue To Play "Name That Price" [Economics]

When the iTunes Store introduced variable pricing earlier this week, 60% of the songs in the store's top 10 had their prices hiked by 30 cents; as of this writing, eight of those 10 tracks are now priced at $1.29, with Kid Cudi's "Day N' Nite" and Jamie Foxx's "Blame It" seeing price increases over the past two days. (Thanks, America, for keeping the top 10 pretty much static so a fair comparison between then and now can be made!) The $0.99-$1.29 split in iTunes' Top 100 songs list is now a 50-5...

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