Rob Horning’s great Marginal Utility post at PopMatters called the time cost of free goods got me thinking how great it would be to be able get a book for free then only pay when you use it. If your attention wanes at page 23 of that new novel, then you would pay a fraction [...]
Mathew Ingram pointed to Jeff Jarvis today. The sky is not falling. Stories (like this one from Adage) have the calculus all wrong — news rooms are here to stay, the news assembly line is going to change. He says…
But in this new ecology, I think newsrooms will need to be organized around topics or [...]
What She Said Wasn’t That Bad
Both Mathew Ingram and TechCrunch came down hard on Tracy Chevalier — and the Society of Authors — for saying writers wanted to chuck the old business models and adopt new ones. Arrington and Ingram know a luddite when they see one. Chevalier qualifies in their minds for pointing out [...]
I am just catching up with last week’s news regarding MySpace’s music space.
As Arrington says..
In case it isn’t abundantly clear - the big labels are all but giving up on charging for recorded music. Instead they’re trying to grab equity stakes in the distribution channels that directly touch consumers.
This makes me think of why terrestrial [...]
Ex-Googler and new chief at EMI, Douglas Merrill talks to Paidcontent.
Two quotes I liked:
The first principle is simple: Fans want to experience art and artists want to create. What the roles of the music labels are in connecting artists, helping artists create, to fans, helping fans experience, I think it’s TBD
“We need to question everything.” [...]