July 30, 2008

"i'm not saying you shouldn't get this album, just know that it's available for FREE on NIN's website."

"I downloaded this from nin.com, but will get it here..."

"it's a good album, and throwing the meagre cost of these downloads their way is the least you can do to thank Reznor for joining the eMusic fold."

"People, as much as I support Emu, The Slip is available for FREE from nin.com. You don't need to spend 10 dls on this."

July 28, 2008

"I'll tell you, it beats buying records for $12.03 and trying to sell them for $9.99."

"I have dodged every conventional bullet that has hit most music retailers," Paris says. "I don't have to worry about downloading, legal or illegally. The beauty of it is that prisoners don't have Internet access and never will."

July 24, 2008

All 12 tracks are available for free download, from day one and forever.

A 12-week campaign where only one track at a time is available for download, similar to the promotion for the upcoming release by the Pretenders.

The "get it while you can" approach -- the entire album is available in week one, then one fewer song is available in each subsequent week until we're down to just one free song.

July 22, 2008

July 21, 2008

July 18, 2008

That was the bang -- over the next decade (and for years thereafter) the company earned millions of dollars from the fab four. So much money, the company almost didn't know what to do with it.

Meanwhile, Hounsfield's success with computers had earned him good standing in the science side of the company. Flush with money broken out of teenagers' piggy banks worldwide, EMI gave Hounsfield the freedom to pursue independent research. Hounsfield's breakthrough was combining his work with computers together with an interest in X-rays. Invented in 1895, X-rays were still pretty much used to image bodies in two dimensions from a fixed position. Hounsfield's idea was to measure in three dimensions, by scanning an object -- most dramatically, a human head -- from many directions. The result was a cross-sectional, interior image that he called computed tomography, or CT. As the Nobel Prize committee put it, in giving him the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1979, before the CT scanner, "ordinary X-ray examinations of the head had shown the skull bones, but the brain had remained a gray, undifferentiated fog. Now, suddenly, the fog had cleared."

First released as a prototype by EMI in 1971 -- the year after the Beatles broke up -- CT scanners started to appear at hospitals in the mid 1970s; today there are about 30,000 in use worldwide.

July 15, 2008

July 10, 2008

We have made about 70.00 per month for the last 2 years

our total digital sales for our two releases is $16.92.

$144 over the past year so about $12 a month. :(

My sales are steadily increasing....but never over $30 a month, yet!

I averaged $30/mo. with highest month $90.

July 02, 2008

Niches will continue to exist, and heavy users will continue to dabble in niches, but the level playing field of digital distribution isn't going to do away with mass culture.

Faithful readers of this column might recall its own skepticism about the idea when the book first hit the stores. In retrospect, "The Long Tail" seems to have followed the template of many Wired articles: take a partly true, modestly interesting, tech-friendly idea and puff it up to Second Coming proportions.