Ben Sisario, for the New York Times:

Sony stayed quiet about the price change, even as criticism spread online. But on Tuesday the company said that the changes — which were in effect only on the British version of iTunes, and were reversed Sunday evening — were made by mistake.“Whitney Houston product was mistakenly mispriced on the U.K. iTunes store on Sunday,” the company said in a statement. “When discovered, the mistake was immediately corrected. We apologize for any offense caused.”

Some “mistake.” There has to be more to the story here than Sony is willing to admit. Unfortunately, many knee-jerk reactions to this “mistake” have blamed Apple for being greedy, rather than laying the blame at Sony’s feet where it belongs.