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Disney Sells 125k iTunes Movies
Apple has been selling movies in iTunes 7 for a full week now. How are sales? According to The Wall Street Journal, Walt Disney says they’ve sold 125,000 movie downloads totaling $1 million in revenue. Not bad for just 1 week.
“This is just the beginning,” Disney CEO Robert Iger told Wall Street analysts at a conference Tuesday. “[iTunes] has proved [to be] a great business because there’s no marketing or other expenses involved in selling digital downloads except the cost of encoding.” Iger went on to predict that iTunes would help generate $50 million in additional revenue for Disney this year.
Walt Disney Pictures, which includes Pixar, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films, is currently the only major movie studio participating on iTunes.
75 Disney movies, including such hits as Pirates of the Caribbean, The Incredibles, Good Will Hunting and National Treasure, can currently be purchased on iTunes. The other major movie studios are exploring partnerships with iTunes competitors or have disagreements with Apple over licensing fees. Disney’s success this week will probably help convince the other studios that participation on iTunes is probably a good idea.
Disney was also the first to offer TV shows on iTunes a year ago from their American broadcast network ABC.
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Gallery of posts up to 09-22-2006 » Coolest Gadgets Says: October 4, 2006 at 9:25 am
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Strong demand for movies on iTunes Says: September 20, 2006 at 2:26 pm
[...] Even though they only have been selling movies for a week on iTunes, Walt Disney alone has sold 125 000 movies through iTunes. That’s a pretty good start and at the current pace it will bring $50 million in additional revenues to Disney. Hopefully we will be able to buy high definition movies through iTunes during 2007. [...]