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The Book Industry And The Music Industry. A Deja’vu?

Posted on 29. Aug, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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Ancient civilizations believed that time was not linear but circular and postulated the theory of the Eternal Return.

Fast forward to the 21st century: the era of time as progress. Still, sometimes, it feels like ancient philosophers might have been up to something.

Take the history of the Music Industry in last 10 years and compare it against the “evolution” of the Book Industry in most recent months. You look at the facts and then tell me if I am the only one disoriented in time and space. The phenomenon of this displacement is what we today call deja’vu.

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R.I.P. Kings, Story-Tellers and Pirates.

Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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A tough week for the music industry. A quick Death Toll:

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With Michael, an era is gone. The ‘golden’ era of Super-Stars who can (could) move millions of hearts and dollars…

Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age has an entire chapter dedicated to Thriller, the album that saved record labels from crashing, back in 1982, when sales were drying out in the post-disco age.

The dialogue that follows is between the then-chairman of CBS Records (then morphed into the now Sony Music Entertainment) and Michael Jackson.

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Crowd-Sourcing Kills Art

Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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Christopher R. Weingarten (@1000TimesYes) – Music Writer, RollingStone.com and Village Voice on Twitter and the End Of Music Criticism.

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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry – June 21, 2009

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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BREAKING NEWS

Music Labels Win $2 Million in Web Case [NYT]

Record Labels’ $1.9 Million Win in Thomas Retrial Constitutional?[EFF]

What’s next for Jammie Thomas-Rasset? [Ars]

BUZZ, COMPANIES & TRENDS – MUSIC

Music Charts Won’t Recognise Free Streams Yet [Moconews]

-The Economy of Digital Music- A Harvard Study

Yet Another Study Shows That Weaker Copyright Benefits Everyone [TechDirt] Download the Full Study here
Read also Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society [MichaelGeist]
Harvard Paper on P2P Flawed But Worth Reading [BillBoard]

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Can You Stop End-User Innovations?

Posted on 07. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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Ok, you’ve read it. Because you MUST read it.

I’m talking of the Steven Jonhson article How Twitter will change the way we live, featured on the current cover of Time.

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The last part of the article is mind-blowing, it is about what Johnson calls “End-user Innovation“.

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Vinyl Rules!

Posted on 07. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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Forget about home theatre surround sound, iPod docking stations and the new-wave all-in-one music systems. It’s time to get ready for the next revolution, the return of the vinyl record – the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles.

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December 2008’s issue of Rolling Stone revealed vinyl sales are up 60 per cent from 2007 in the United States alone. Nielsen SoundScan reported 15 percent year-over-year growth in 2007 and 89 percent in 2008, making the 1.9 million vinyl albums purchased last year the most since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.

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TRVSDJAM Mixtape And The Fan-Casting Era

Posted on 06. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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Last week, TRVSDJAM, the combined force of Travis Barker and DJ-AM, released their newest mixtape via Twitter, offering a free download of their newest mixtape in exchange for a tweet.

By tweeting “Download the new #trvsdjam mixtape ‘Fix Your Face Vol. 2 – Coachella 09′ in exchange for one tweet! http://twitter.trvsdjam.com/”, tweeters receive a free download via an application built by Culture Jam Labs.

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As you can see in the pre-populated tweet, a special hashtag – #trvsdjam – is included in the twit, with the goal of making it a top trending topic on Twitter.

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Irving Azoff on Artists as Brands

Posted on 06. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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Last week at the All Things Digital: D conference hosted by Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, music mogul and Ticketmaster Entertainment CEO Irving Azoff, talked about the status of the music industry today.

Artists (and presumably their labels, managers, etc.) no longer make money off the release of their actual music. “Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source” for acts now, said Azoff. Today,“recorded music is down to less than 6%” of major musical acts’ revenues, he claimed. Artists walk in to his office, Azoff said, “who used to make $300,000 to $500,000 a year in royalties [from selling recordings]. And now that’s diminished to less than $50,000” a year.

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[Book] Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music

Posted on 05. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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41us7kz9g9l_sx106_ Everything (and nothing) can be said about the music industry. Chances are you heard it before, or you said it before, or it was discussed in a conference, or twitted and blogged…

So when you buy a book on this topic, the best you can hope is to re-learn something or understand its historic or human motivations. And there’s certainly that to be acknowledged to Greg Kot’s book, How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music.

But more than the learning, Ripped stays with you because it is not a dry theory, but it lives the lives of the hundreds of persons and facts that Greg Kot, a Chicago Tribune music blogger since the 1990s, collected as an insider.