Wired’s Chris Anderson is expanding his theory of the "Long Tail" to book form, and is blogging the process. Read the original article to see why it’s an important theory for you to be thinking about.
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Someone’s gonna find a fan club president under the bumper of an SUV…
Lots of buzz about the Chely Wright situation. We’re shocked, shocked to hear that someone in the fan club encouraged folks to pose as military family members to encourage jocks to play the single. Of course, this has been going…
Even Orrin Hatch Gets Mailbox Money
Our IndieBiz.com members participated in a great conversation about songwriting royalties the other day. Here’s an example I wish we could have discussed — did you know that Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, one of the folks who legislates issues affecting…
“The public has been street teamed to death.”
Seth Godin spent a few days in the room with record industry executives who wanted to rediscover what it is they’re actually selling. The Smoking Gun Lefsetz is there…
We really are locking the doors over at IndieBiz.com
David is really serious about this, folks. He puts a lot of energy into telling new members about the service, but we both agreed that we can help folks better by putting as much energy as possible into helping the…
My Backend is on Fire!
I keep nudging you about unusual merch opportunities: here’s what Joe Perry’s up to…
Pew Round II
Apparently, the half of pool of musicians who told the Pew Survey that they don’t want their audiences sharing music is about to beat down the half of the pool of musicians that do. Sigh. Come on, kids. There’s plenty…
P2P at Pew
The Pew Research Center has released results from its study of musicians’ attitudes towards file sharing, and the numbers don’t surprise. Artists are split between folks (like Don Henley and Metallica) who believe file swapping needs to be stopped now,…
CD Baby’s Partnership with Mperia Provides New Networking and Distribution Channels
CD Baby announced yesterday that they are teaming up with Bitpass to make the 300,000+ tracks in CD Baby’s digital distribution library available at BitPass’ online music store, Mperia. This partnership brings increased revenue opportunities and valuable new exposure for…
Copyright Bill Backs Down
Wired covers the "kinder, gentler" copyright bill on its way to the House.
Is it still a street date if nothing actually hits the street?
Universal’s new digital skunk works releases some online-only titles today. [via PaidContent]
MSN Music + GarageBand
Remember those songs you used to have posted at MP3.com? They’re ba…ack…