eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 12 2007 | books, music, free, piracy, DRM, copyright, Tim O'Reilly
The 7 lessons of distribution for authors:
Quoted: 1) Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
2) Piracy is progressive taxation.
3) Customers want to do the right thing, if they can.
4) Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy.
5) File sharing networks don't threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten existing publishers.
6) "Free" is eventually replaced by a higher-quality paid service.
7) There's more than one way to do it.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 28 2008 | business, music, books, Amazon.com, Unbox, MP3
Apparently Jeff announced that Amazon will be launching Pay-Per-View streaming service next week. I wonder what that entails and if it will work as well as my Tivo 3/Unbox connection right now? Will I also be able to access music subscriptions?
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 05 2007 | art, books, music, Milan Kundera, Marcel Proust, towrite
Quoted: Was Flaubert bored by Madame Bovary? Was Proust's Albertine a man? Did Tolstoy kill off Anna Karenina too soon? Milan Kundera reflects on the history, secrets and future of his craft - and asks if literature itself is under threat from mediocrity and pointless proliferation
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- eric - Mar 12 2007
- ljc - Mar 12 2007
You must be Eric's friend before you can comment on this Fave.i'd agree except for #6 - i think "free" might be partially, but won't be entirely replaced by better-quality paid service. sharing won't eliminate the paying market, but it will cause it to shrink.
6 reads a bit funny to me too but I don't necessarily agree that free services cause the paying market to shrink in all situations. In fact, many of the articles I pointed to today in my little barrage of dots say that free distribution can "expand" the paying market.
This isn't a zero-sum game. There is a point at which it may not be as wise to give things away for free but I think for artists who are relatively obscure, it may be the way to build a paying audience - which is the point...
well, either way i'm all for free distribution. it may well be that it helps obscure artists (for whom i have a lot of sympathy) and hurts the big ones and their publishing/recording companies (for whom i have a lot less). in any case there's really no way to stop it, short of extreme levels of policing and regulation which would be bad in many, many ways.
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