For-profit music distribution industry fundamentally redundant

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[GoldSounds] In an article (via Furdlog) on the fabulously-titled field of “Rockonomics”, Slate magazine summarises the findings of Princeton researchers Alan Krueger and Marie Connolly (PDF), who have analysed the various revenue streams of pop and rock artists over the last three decades.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Goldsounds.com] GoldSounds: Over the last couple years, Microsoft has burnt boatloads of cash to become “Google with a different colour scheme”, by following Google’s lead and releasing copycat products a few months after the Google versions (simplified search engine, desktop search). Now they’re about to do it again with MSN Virtual Earth, a mapping service with many conspicuous Google-Maps-esque features such as overlaying popups on the map and dynamic zooming.

[Trainque.com] Jarrod Trainque » Banned Music: ... In an article (via Furdlog ) on the fabulously-titled field of , Slate magazine summarises the findings of Princeton researchers Alan Krueger and Marie Connolly (PDF), who have analysed the various revenue streams of pop and rock artists over the last three decades. One interesting finding, which is highly relevant to the current upheaval on the net surrounding music sharing, is that most artists make far more money from concerts than they do from recordings - even those with multi-platinum albums to their name.

[Senses.typepad.com] Senses Working Overtime: Music: There's also the dirty little secret that I simply have been having a hell of a time finding more than a handful of worthy sites each day and the list was becoming little more than a daily reminder to check out the very few truly special blogs that seemed to crop up on each and every roundup. But no one needs to be reminded to visit The Tofu Hut, Fluxblog, Copy, Right?, music (for robots) and all the dancing indie kids, homicidal suburbs, vinyl orphanages, and heavenly singles charts.

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Posted at June 13, 2005 11:56 AM