Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
This time it is former Stranglers front man Hugh Cornwell. As reported on Techdirt he is recognising the economics of abundance with respect to digital goods by:
Giving his latest album away as a completely free download
Offering people to pay for physical versions - e.g. CD, DVD or vinyl
Selling a related experience, consisting of a movie [...]
I have probably bought more copies of Time Out than any other magazine, although sadly not recently, so it is with a little nostalgia that I relay the news from BrandRepublic and MobHappy that TimeOut is considering scrapping the cover charge for it’s iconic London listings magazine.
The option is to have a web based listings [...]
I seem to writing a lot about music and ‘free as a business model’ at the moment, and a great post on Techdirt this morning has me at it again. This is such a great description of why bands can benefit from having their music freely available that I’m going to reproduce the whole [...]
In another bite-sized piece of evidence of the trend towards ‘free’ Preston McAfee has written an open source economics text book - reported on Techdirt and in the LA Times.
The PDF is available for free and there is an ‘open source’ Word version where he will capture user suggestions.
In the digital world the marginal cost [...]
There is a great article in the FT this morning which makes some interesting points about the current state of the music industry.
We sometimes hear dire warnings from music labels that if piracy is not decimated, music will die. But there is no evidence of that so far - lots of enjoyable new bands turn [...]
Last week Chris Anderson of Wired and Long Tail fame posted a preview of his new book on free as a business model and I wrote a post summing up his argument (which I largely agree with) and calling for innovation in business models - we will all still need to find ways to make [...]
