Yes, the music industry is evolving. And this time, numbers are not the ones talking, its in the news.
- Motorola acquires online music store SoundBuzz
- Sony BMW confirms DRM free music, but will force customers to visit a store to buy it I agree with TechCrunch on this one.
Sony BMG will become the last of the big four record companies to sell DRM free music, but with one very stupid catch.
- Napster to offer DRM-free mp3 downloads
Paul M. Banas responded on 07 Jan 2008 at 8:30 pm #
The music industry is evolving, whether it wants to or not.
Seth Godin had an interesting post this morning on the music business as well:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/music-lessons.html
PMB
robojiannis responded on 07 Jan 2008 at 8:39 pm #
@ Paul
I totally agree. Especially with his first (number 0) point.
“you’d better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone”.
Bob Dylan
Micha responded on 08 Jan 2008 at 11:56 am #
but somehow the old established houses still survive.. i actually did not know that napster still exists. do you know anybody who is a napster (bertelsmann, no?) customer? but with cross financing it always seems possible to uphold uneconomic parts of a company…
robojiannis responded on 08 Jan 2008 at 3:24 pm #
@ Micha
I don’t know anyone on Napster, but napster says it has a capital to last for 18 months without any income. So I suppose many people are on Napster (yes bertelsmann too).
Yes, the established houses still survive (and probably will keep on surviving). I guess, they will just transform their marketing methods.