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...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 that 20 percent of Rihanna’s revenue comes from the sale of ringtones. This innovative mentality is saving the music business, without undermining the business of music...
...vastly superior fundraising and grass-roots organizations. But it has never been tried on a large scale by a sitting President. So Obama's web of supporters and his online organizers must now feel their way into uncharted territory. During the campaign, Richardson, an unemployed customer-service specialist, downloaded phone numbers from the Obama website and then made calls from his home office to nudge voters to the polls. He hasn't heard directly from the Obama organization since, but with the help of the Obama website, Facebook and e-mail, he has created an Obama satellite organization...
...public about it, a 13 million-man army, with foot soldiers ready to act in key congressional districts, could come in handy if the White House has trouble lining up votes for various bills and proposals that reach Capitol Hill. Obama's army can make a lot of phone calls and send a lot of e-mails - and it has proved it knows how to act fast. Rallying support for legislation is one mission; so is making sure the army is intact - and still writing checks - in a few years, when Obama is likely to seek re-election...
...Caroline Kennedy is going to be the next senator from New York, so get on board now.” So spoke a top aide within the New York mayor’s office, according to phone records obtained by the New York Times. But the union leader on the other end of the line shouldn’t have been surprised to hear it. A number of influential sources, from politicians to journalists, have already pegged Caroline Kennedy as the front runner for Hilary Clinton’s soon-to-be-vacant senate seat...
...always convinced that when Blair thought that he'd moved Bush to a different place on this, he hadn't done so at all," Lord Levy, Blair's envoy to the Middle East, said in a recent interview with the Sunday Telegraph. "Once Blair was off the phone or Blair was out of Washington, Bush would then listen to others...