You can now save money with Apple iTunes volume pricing. They don’t tell you what the discount is, but if you’re planning on buying more than 25,000 songs for your next big promotion, Apple now has a system for it. You can, they say, get as much as 20% off when the number of codes you buy approaches some sufficiently large number:

We are able to offer discounts of as much as 20% off our standard $0.99 pricing for certain bulk purchase levels.

Interestingly enough, university purchases are included:

The minimum volume purchase to receive song codes is 25,000 songs for commercial entities and 10,000 songs for colleges and universities.

The codes are also region-locked, a fact sure to have already upset many iTunes and freedom-of-information critics:

iTunes Volume Songs codes are available for every country where we have an iTunes Music Store. Songs codes issued for a specific country can only be redeemed in that country.

But, the final word, as always, is that Apple controlls overything, and must pre-approve the use of its codes:

You may be able to use song codes that go unused for alternate promotional giveaways with prior approval from Apple.

One would think that buying codes enables you to use them for anything you like so long as they fit in the terms, but it seems not..

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