You’d like to sell digital content? First, print and sign these contracts
You want to sell music, TV, movies or apps on iTunes Store? First you apply for an iTunes publisher account, and when you’re accepted, the manual labour begins. You might have thought you were entering a Brave New World of media as digital bits, but for now, it’s back to the Stone Age for you.
Apple asks you to print out and sign a 70 page contract, in duplicate, for each geographic market iTunes services (US/Canada/Mexico, Europe, Japan, Australia/NZ, then you have to FedEx that stack of paper to Apple in Cupertino, where they will manually review each signature page, countersign each contract, and FedEx back your copy. They then scan and store their copy in some vast archive.
Apple feels this stack of paperwork and penmanship is necessary before you enter into the business of selling digital content over their digital distribution network.
Sadly Apple has yet to adopt digital signature technology
