digital_music_industry

Lessons from the Music Industry from Insider Hilary Rosen

This is a fascinating interview by Billboard with Hilary Rosen who was the industry head of RIAA at the time that Napster got shut down. She resigned in 2003. The take away from the article is that digital downloads brings the consumer closer to the manufacturers of the product and that interoperability should have been [...]

Mark Cuban’s Digital Download Idea

Movie sound tracks make very little money in the marketplace so Mark Cuban has an idea to make better use of the music. It takes a lot of cash to promote a movie so Mark wonders how many more people would go to the movie if they knew that their movie ticket stub had a [...]

With Rumors of Amazon Selling DRM Free Music, Will Books Be Far Behind?

With Rumors of Amazon Selling DRM Free Music, Will Books Be Far Behind?

I received an email this week from a reader who wanted to buy an ebook reader. She wasn’t very familiar with ebooks other than the epublished ones and didn’t know at all about DRM (digital rights management). She wasn’t aware that when you bought a Sony Reader, the books you bought for the Sony Reader [...]