When a corporation misses its projections by 30 percent, you're entitled to think that something has gone wrong. Apple — once just a computer company — had hoped to sell 100 million songs in the first year of its iTunes Music Store. Instead it sold 70 million songs. But nobody seems to be complaining. At 99 cents per song, iTunes has generated nearly $70 million in legal Internet music sales that didn't exist before, and it is hoping to double that figure in the second year.
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