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Boing Boing: Grammy Tech summit keynote: stop whining about CD sales and realize the definition of success has changed
Jarrett House North: links for 2008-11-18
Techdirt: Dear Recording Industry: Stop Whining, Start Making Money
TechCrunch: Ian Rogers On The Death Of The Music CD Business: “I Don’t Care.”
Grammy Tech summit keynote: stop whining about CD sales and realize the definition of success has changed
Boing Boing —
... is that when we moved from cassette to CD the winners were the same (big companies who owned access to cash, distribution, and marketing) and the definition of winning was the same (more units sold for these big companies).
As I’ve been saying for years, the physics of the media space have changed and you shouldn’t expect the winners or even the definition of winning to stay constant, so simply looking at how iTunes replaces CDs doesn’t tell the entire story.
GRAMMY Northwest MusicTech Summit Keynote
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links for 2008-11-18
Jarrett House North —
... Pretty awesome tool for doing affinity maps. Look forward to trying it out.
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Topspin » GRAMMY Northwest MusicTech Summit Keynote
An inspiring presentation about the state of ...
Dear Recording Industry: Stop Whining, Start Making Money
Techdirt —
... at music industry conferences, and now he's done it again. At a recent music industry conference, he told the assembled industry execs to basically stop whining about "losses" due to piracy and start making money. While I don't entirely agree with what business models will eventually be successful, Rogers makes a few key points in showing how musicians are making more money than ever before by figuring out ways to connect directly with fans, and not worrying about how many CDs they can sell. ...
Ian Rogers On The Death Of The Music CD Business: “I Don’t Care.”
TechCrunch —
We’ve written a lot about the death of the recorded music business, but in a keynote address to a music industry conference a couple weeks ago Topspin CEO Ian Rogers sketches out a different future. Rogers, the former head of Yahoo Music, correctly points out, as others have before him, that it is not the music industry that is dying. It is the CD business.
And as far as the CD business going the way of the dodo, with sales of physical CDs declining and the growth of digital sales not making up the difference, his response ...
