“The Long Tail approach, by contrast, is to simply dump huge chunks of the archive onto bare-bones DVDs, without any extras or marketing […] The same is true for the music industry. It should be securing the rights to release all the titles in all the back catalogs as quickly as it can - thoughtlessly, automatically, and at industrial scale.”
Read an interesting article about the so called Long Tail Business on Wired. So, dear Atlantic Records when will you offer the Madame X album in digital quality? Unfortunately my old vinyl copy of this Bernadette Cooper produced project crackle like hell on some songs. And dear Blue Note, there’s Cosmos by McCoy Tyner, that still isn’t re-released…add your own endless list here :-)
[thanks to boingboing.net for the link to the Wired article]
2005/24/5 at 19:46
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