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Monday, 30 November 2015

Recommended book: How Music Got Free

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Took me a while in the end to get round to reading this, and here is my summary. Witt's book provides an in-depth account of the orig...
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Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Just how relevant is the album format in 2015?

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Published this article on The Conversation which focuses on Adele's new release '25' and the recent 2015 Mercury Music Prize. ...
Wednesday, 18 November 2015

The Business Of Music-Streaming Services: How Deals With Record Labels And Publishers Are Made

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Stumbled upon this piece from Tech Times recently which explores music streaming services in some detail. Though it fails to come to any r...
Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Is Spotify good or bad?

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Well that depends on who you ask. Certainly, if you look at this new working paper from Economists Aguiar and Waldfogel, released today,...
Thursday, 22 October 2015

Revisiting the carrot versus the stick, from a global perspective

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In this new report from the team at TechDirt, including Mike Masnick (who features frequently on this blog), the recurring question over w...
Thursday, 8 October 2015

Movie Piracy vs. Music Piracy

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Much has been said on this blog about the difference between music and movie piracy. Here's another entry, bringing us bang up to date....
Friday, 25 September 2015

Recommended book: The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music

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Love you, Sage. Check out this new text, The Sage Handbook of Popular Music , which you ought to be able to obtain from your finest local...