profitability of iTMS
Per Coolfer: In the New York Times’ Bits blog, Saul Hansell makes a case that iTunes may be Apple’s best business segment. Last year, PacificCrest analyst Andy Hargreaves estimated iTunes’ operating...
View Articleslot music
the listenerd on the Slot Music plan: this nearly universally maligned plan is to sell albums not as CDs or MP3s, but on SD memory cards. The idea may well not be a good one at all, however, the...
View ArticleFleet Foxes from Starbucks
I bought the Fleet Foxes CD at Starbucks yesterday. Reasons why: 1) Recommended on Twitter. 2) Cheap — only $12! Damn right CD sales are affected by pricing. 3) Convenient as hell to snag it while I...
View Article“Sue em all” Awesome
Techies frequently rag on the RIAA “sue em all” campaign, saying that it hasn’t worked and never will. They’re wrong. As an example of someone saying Sue Em All is not working, this sober analysis by...
View Articlemini-talk at CC Salon tonight
I’ll do a shorty talk at the Creative Commons salon in Silverlake, in LA, tonight. My topic is going to be the role of permissive licensing in the business of internet music. I’ll lay out a map of the...
View Articlepostapocalyptic visions of the record industry
From the comments on sue em all not good for labels, here’s Greg on the prospects for the music industry: It’s kind of like Dr. Bloodmoney or one of the other good Phil Dick post-apocalyptic novels:...
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Amazon grew PPD business ~ $82 MM
Amazon’s MP3 store was about 8% of the pay-per-download market in its first year of operation, and only about 10% of that business was taken from the iTunes music store. So Amazon made the PPD business...
View ArticleAmazon MP3 #3
I got a viral email about free Christmas MP3s on Amazon this morning. They’re doing a giveaway song every day, cheesy things but free is free so I clicked through to the promotion. The song didn’t...
View Articlewhy Myspace is giving Project Playlist the heave, and Facebook isn’t
TechCrunch reports that Myspace is giving Playlist.com the heave: We first got word from MySpace users that their Playlist widgets are simply vanishing from their MySpace profiles earlier today. When...
View ArticleListening Room, Turntable.fm, Pandora
The hype machine is all a-flutter about Turntable.fm, which isn’t totally unreasonable because it’s a great app. But there are a couple reasons to calm down. First, it is not the creator of the idea....
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