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Somehow this article, which I ran across via The New Yorker, seems to parallel Neil Young and the Sound of Music (AllThingsD)
The author of Freedom and The Corrections, regarded as one of America’s greatest living novelists, said consumers had been conned into thinking that they need the latest technology.
“The technology I like is the American paperback edition of Freedom. I can spill water on it and it would still work! So it’s pretty good technology. And what’s more, it will work great 10 years from now. So no wonder the capitalists hate it. It’s a bad business model,” said Franzen, who famously cuts off all connection to… Continue reading: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society – Telegraph
tbd if Google can find some way to get beyond “me too but later…” in music
Google’s new challenge to Apple escalates the rivalry between the two companies, already locked in a fight for smartphone users and mobile-advertising customers. The Internet- search giant also faces budding competition from Amazon.com Inc., which has bolstered its music-download and storage service, and Spotify Ltd., whose partnership with Facebook Inc. has buoyed U.S. membership this year.
“They’re coming into this market rather late in the game, where there are large, established players,” said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in San Jose, California. “You can say it’s a saturated market.”
Google Music Store… Continue reading: Google Music Store Chases Apple’s ITunes 8 Years Too Late: Tech – Businessweek
Digital music is one of many examples of domains in which I believe Google should be partnering with Amazon, rather than trying to beat Apple as an end-to-end solitary supplier
Google Inc. is building a music-download store that would work closely with its Google+ social network and could launch it within the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.
Users of Google Music, as the service is tentatively named, could recommend songs in an online library to Google+ contacts, who in turn would be allowed to listen to those songs once for free. The songs would then be available for sale as MP3 downloads, probably for around… Continue reading: Google Builds Music-Download Store – WSJ.com
Final paragraph of a Spotify review
If you tend to choose music according to what your friends like and a lot of your friends use Spotify, you won’t likely have a problem with discovering music in Spotify. Otherwise, you may be frustrated by the relatively limited What’s New music selection. Overall, using this service feels a bit like someone opened a vast library of digital music and made it free for unlimited listening—at least for now.
Spotify Music Streaming Service Review – Katherine Boehret – The Digital Solution – AllThingsD
Continue reading: Spotify Music Streaming Service Review – Katherine Boehret – The Digital Solution – AllThingsD
A multifaceted music milestone
Baidu signed an agreement with a joint venture owned by Universal Music, Warner Music and Sony Music to distribute music through its mp3 search service.
Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, will pay the owners of the music rights on a per-play and per-download basis.
China is the world’s biggest internet market with close to 470 million users.
BBC News – Baidu signs deal with music labels
Continue reading: BBC News – Baidu signs deal with music labels
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