Can I transfer purcased from my old apple ID to my new apple ID

I have an apple ID that I have used for many years. I will stop using the mail address associated with the apple ID. And have therefore opened a new me.com account, as I´m thinking of cancelling the old account. Can I transfer my old purchased items from the old ID to the new one?
If I´m correct, I could just have changed the email address in the old apple ID, and that the ID would have kept on working as before, only with a new name(new mail). But then the new mail can´t be from the apple domain??? Am I missing something, what is the reason behind that.
Or should I just change to a gmail address on my old apple id, and use it as before.
I just don´t want to keep changing apple ID on my devices every time there´s a new update for an app.
Cheers
Soisix

You can't transfer content between accounts (nor merge accounts) - content will remain tied to the account that downloaded it.
You can change the primary email address on an account (effectively you are just renaming the account, you shouldn't lost any content or balance associated with the account) by logging into the account via the Store > View Account menu option on a computer's iTunes, by tapping on the id in Settings > iTunes & App Store on an iOS device, or via http://appleid.apple.com : Change your Apple ID - Apple Support
You can change your Apple ID to any other email address you control, as long as it's not already in use as an Apple ID. If your email address ends with @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com, it's already an Apple ID.
Either before or after changing the account log out of it wherever you are are using it and then log back in with the updated version so as to 'refresh' the account in those places.

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