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...record labels screwed themselves: "After almost eight years of stonewalling MP3s and Napster, major label employees gradually accepted the fact that freely selling digital music was the blueprint for survival. EMI's decision to sell MP3s was a step in this direction - as would be Amazon's MP3 store, MySpace Music, and the Radiohead model of giving away music online. But labels were still a long way from overcoming their outdated ideas. They clung stubbornly to long held beliefs that selling millions of pieces of plastic would return them to massive profits...
...avoid this sad scenario, publishers should look to the music industry. Despite the ruckus it is raising over illegal file sharing, record companies have quietly adjusted themselves to the reality of downloading. CDs and MP3s are now only at the surface of what they sell; related products such as concert tours, posters, and ringtones generate a significant cut of the total revenue. In 2008, while album sales fell 14 percent, concert ticket sales rose seven percent. And next time someone’s cell phone goes off to the deepening downbeat of “Disturbia,” consider...
...almost goes without saying that MySpace will also happily sell you songs and albums its new service doesn't cover; the site has partnered with Amazon, which handles the transactions and sends you unlocked MP3s. Indeed, when you set up MyMusic, you can add an Amazon applet and install a music downloader (Mac and Windows are supported, I'm told) that will drop the purchased music wherever you want, including into iTunes, so you can transfer the songs to your iPod. (Songs range from 79 cents to 99 cents each...
...full megapixel higher than the iPhone's, you still can't record video. One big drawback for music lovers may be the G1's lack of iTunes; without it, you can't play copy-protected songs purchased from Apple's music store unless you convert them to MP3s first. There is an unbranded music player built by Google, however, and Amazon is the default music merchant...
...told him some of my MP3s were pirated, which didn't concern him. Unable to think of anything else wrong I'd done, I figured I'd mention that I once wrote a very unpopular column about not supporting the troops. "What? You wrote a column about how you don't support the troops? This is what we in the business would call a showstopper. Yikes." He then went to my Wikipedia page and informed me that I would have gotten axed in the first two minutes of Phase...