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CD Blues: Music Industry in Upheaval

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

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The industry’s frustration must have escalated even higher when the Grammy Award-winning British alternative rock group Radiohead decided to give away their 2007 album “In Rainbows” on the Internet for whatever price fans wished to pay, including nothing at all.

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Tags: Media Economics · Music

No Time to be Neutral on Net Neutrality

July 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

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But now major telephone companies and cable companies, which control 98 percent of broadband access in the U.S. (through DSL and cable modem service), would like to dismiss net neutrality give faster connections and greater priority to clients willing to pay higher rates.

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Tags: Cable Television · Internet · Media Economics

Newspaper Circulation Up! (For Free Papers)

June 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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The big story about the mainstream newspaper industry in the 2000s has been the decline of circulation and revenue for the print version, and the slow but promising growth of online editions. But in one segment of the newspaper industry—free newspapers—circulation is actually up, way up.

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Tags: Journalism · Journalism Ethics · Media Economics