Questions about selling content on iTunes

Hi everyone,
We are preparing to start selling audiobooks and applications of our own production on iTunes.
I was not able to find direct answers to the following questions on Apple's support portal:
1. Are there any requirements on the number of songs in an album?
2. How much does Apple take from sales of tracks, albums and applications?
3. Can we set prices for individual tracks and whole albums?
Thanks!

Can someone at least point me somewhere where I can find this information?

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> Hi, experts,
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> thanx in advance!
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/people/anish.abraham2/blog/2005/06/08/content-conversion-patternrandom-content-in-input-file
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter
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