Big Biz: What's In It for Me?
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Some of the music industry's biggest names are involved in blockbuster deals: Jay-Z and Live Nation, MySpace and three music majors, and EMI and Google. You might think upheaval inside the music industry doesn't affect you, but think again. First, Eliot van Buskirk of Wired.com explains the impact on music fans.
Weigh in: What do you think of the recent spate of music-business megadeals?
Weigh in: What do you think of the recent spate of music-business megadeals?
Comments [4]
Mixwit's ability to make the coolest looking mixtapes is incredible, also i can put them in my facebook profile! thanks Mixwit!
Mixwit.com is awesome! Much slicker than muxtape.
mixtapes were hard to make! they required a lot of thought and work.
what we don't need: more big music labels.
i don't care if they're emphasizing live music. we need more smaller operations. the only reason they focus on live performance is that it is becoming increasingly improbable that anyone will be able to control where recorded music is going to go and how anyone will pay be forced to pay for it.
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