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Record companies keep about 72.5 cents on average for a 99 cent song, Dave Jaworski, CEO of PassAlong Networks, at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. PassAlong sets up online music services for other web sites. It has a big store on Ebay too.
At $17 for a CD, they get to keep more money per sale (and still pass virtually nothing on to the artist). It's all about the profit margin to which they've become accustomed.