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Why The Publishing Industry Needs a DRM-free iTunes for Publications

Dec 9, 2008 7:59

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Anyone interested in music and literature – and the impact of technology on both – keep making the digital music analogy: It took a decade for the music industry to learn how to make money in the digital era, and for the most part they were whining about about it and fighting digital formats and [...]

Mygazines is dead – or how not to launch an online publishing service

Oct 15, 2008 4:58

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It’s been exiting watching a new online publishing site, Mygazines.com, come out of nowhere and grow like a weed.
I must admit they had things going for them (like a catchy name and reasonable performance overall). It definitely wasn’t a site built overnight.
But it was hard to miss the fact that the Mygazines people were dirty. [...]

Gerd Leonhard gets online music licensing right

Jun 27, 2008 6:40

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He’s a fast talker, but author/futurist Gerd Leonhard gets it right: The future of music is not really about copyright but about permission (we are not copying – we are using). Now ‘all’ we need to do, is persuade the major labels. One positive example is Danish ISP TDC (Danish only, sorry) who bought the [...]

 

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