Apple offers iTunes users deal in bid to push albums
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple Inc., the company that popularized selling songs online for 99 cents apiece, now hopes to buoy interest in albums, giving customers credit for purchases of full albums from which they have bought individual tracks.
Apple introduced the Complete My Album feature yesterday on its iTunes Store. It now gives a full credit of 99 cents for every track the user previously purchased and applies it toward the purchase of the complete album.
Previously, users who bought singles and later opted to buy the album had to pay the full price of the album and ended up with duplicates of those songs. The album price reduction is good for only 180 days after the purchase of individual tracks.
For a limited period of 90 days, Apple said it will make the Complete My Album offer retroactive to users who purchased tracks dating back to the launch of the iTunes Store four years ago.© Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company.More:Globe Living/Arts stories