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iTunes Japan: Thursday Update

by Erica Sadun (Jul 12th, 2007)

Every week, the Japanese iTunes store updates later than the stores for the rest of the world. Because of this, the iTunes Single of the Week for Japan lags behind other countries. Here is this week's offering for you to download and enjoy. Be aware that it's having a few problems today--I've been ...

iTunes: Free Wednesday

by Erica Sadun (May 23rd, 2007)

It looks like the iTunes hamsters finally woke up, got on their exercise wheels and have been working hard at updating the store. Here are a lot more free items to supplement those posted yesterday. Unfortunately, Canada still doesn't seem to have posted a Single of the Week--but Germany did. One ...

iTunes: Free Wednesday

by Erica Sadun (May 16th, 2007)

Here's the latest Japanese free Single of the Week, freshly updated. Because of staggered time zones, the Japanese single often lags behind the other free items by a day. This is for all the TUAW readers who wrote me asking that I bring back the Wednesday Japanese update. Enjoy. Japan ???????: ...

iTunes: Free Wednesday

by Erica Sadun (May 9th, 2007)

The iTunes Single of the Week has finally hit the US store's front page and when I checked this morning all three US items were now finally free. Today also brings us a new free audio book chapter (Catch 22) and a short movie from Elle Fashion Stories. Glamour previously sponsored several short ...

iTunes: Free Wednesday

by Erica Sadun (Feb 14th, 2007)

Playing catch-up, here's a quick round up of the countries whose free items hadn't gone live when I wrote the normal freebies post yesterday. And I'm sure none of you will be shocked that it's all Borne, Borne, Borne all the way. Don't believe the Canadian writeup. The "Loss of Signal" album ...

iTunes: Free Wednesday

by Erica Sadun (Jan 31st, 2007)

It's Wednesday, and we're happy to bring you the latest iTunes freebies update. Today, we bring you the Japanese Single of the Week, newly available for download to anyone with a Japan iTunes Store account. (You can open your own account by buying a Japanese iTunes gift card.) Japan ???????: ...

iTunes: Free Wednesday

by Erica Sadun (Jan 17th, 2007)

Well, it took long enough, but many of this week's missing-in-action freebies have now shown up and are ready to download. All three US music tracks are now finally updated as free (rather than 99 cents). The Australian, Japanese and New Zealand offerings have finally arrived and France's SOTW no ...

iTunes Freebies: "Extras"

by Erica Sadun (Jan 10th, 2007)

So why is it that TV shows are now starting to show up as podcasts rather than in the iTunes store? Today the first episode of Season 2 of Extras became available through iTunes--but it's a podcast. Something similar happened the other day with the PBS science pilots, also available as podcasts. So ...

iTunes: Free Wednesday UK Edition

by Erica Sadun (Jan 3rd, 2007)

The UK store finally got updated today with the free download/Single of the Week. It's odd that it took so long this week. Even Japan's free single appeared before the UK's, which was very unusual timing wise. Leona Lewis still rules at #1--but my heart belongs to Eton Road and the ...

iTunes: Free Wednesday

by Erica Sadun (Dec 20th, 2006)

It's Wednesday and the Japanese iTunes store has finally updated with its free Single of the Week. This week's single is Reality Proof Scaphander by Drive Far, which I hope makes more sense in Japanese than it does in English. ???????: Reality Proof Scaphander by Drive Far ...

iTunes: Free Wednesday

by Erica Sadun (Dec 6th, 2006)

Yeah, yeah. Apparently you Australians didn't tick off Steve Jobs enough that you missed out on a nice Wednesday Freebie. For the Australians, and Japanese, here's some belated iTunes Freebie goodness that just went live. Feel the love, baby! Australia: Stay by Blindspott Blindspott burst onto the ...