Monday, 10 December 2007

Linkage

Countering music industry cluelessness


Call to action for shareholders at Music 2.0:

For charity’s sake, let’s just grant the music label bosses a leave of their senses in 1999 BUT then over a sustained period of at least 8 years , they still haven’t got it - not one out of the sorry parade of major label CEOs...
...if all the budget and energy is being spent protecting their turf... - instead of finding solutions to facilitate this shift to digital - then the obvious suggestion as the first step in this transition is for the Luddite label chiefs to be fired as they have totally lost the plot...
Good summary of the current mess, and a cartoon, too. (LATER: Actually, the cartoon lives here.)

This post by Howie Klein (linked in the above) deserves its own link:
How to destroy a profitable industry in just a few easy steps
...in 2000 Steve Jobs snagged our [Warner Bros Music's] VP of new media... to help with Apple's music strategy. 6 months later: iTunes 1.0.


(Via Hear 2.0)

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