by Dubber | Aug 14, 2008 | Promotion, Retail
You are, of course, familiar with the Long Tail principle – Chris Anderson’s now famous idea that attempts to explain what happens to hits and niche products when things like the scarcity of retail shelf space go out the window thanks to the internet....
by Dubber | May 27, 2008 | Question, Retail
DJ Cro supporting Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings in Birmingham One of the problems of recorded music is the issue of price. With mp3s being an essentially infinite and perfectly replicable resource, the market price is a theoretical (and quite often practical) zero....
by Dubber | Apr 17, 2008 | Retail
One of the areas of music business I’ve always been interested in is retail. The romantic notion of owning a record store and being surrounded by so much great music all day is really appealing. As, of course, is the idea that your opinions about music will be...
by Dubber | Apr 10, 2008 | Retail, Seminar
I did a Strategies For Success seminar in Plymouth today for the Musicians Union, and I did it along the the theme of the ‘Questions I Keep Getting Asked About Music Online’. I managed to get some of it recorded, which has allowed me to experiment with the...
by Dubber | Oct 9, 2007 | Promotion, Retail
Now Oasis and Jamiroquai want to give their music away too. But do they actually understand what’s going on? It’s amazing how many massive acts are currently without record deals at the moment. Oasis and Jamiroquai are just the tip of the iceberg. But...
by Dubber | Jul 12, 2007 | Distribution, Promotion, Retail
When I talked to Gerd Leonhard from Sonific on this blog recently, I mentioned I’d be featuring another widget-based tool for online music distribution. Introducing Nimbit. I’ve been looking around at widgets that musicians and their fans can embed into...
