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more about #digitaldownloads more comments → Nick: i think the real lesson here is how Too Much Joy can quickly turn sour as time marches on. aka old people are grouches. i will now depart your lawn... more » whiteflea: Amazing article. I read it from start to finish, including footnotes. more » PotteryBarnClearanceSale: Here's my theory: It's a database and logic problem in the accounting code. The completely missing album royalties are because there is not a unique ... more » Kaiser-Machead: The title's a bit misleading. Isn't cooking the books illegal, due to the fact it involves deceiving people into believing that there are earnings tha... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Mr. Quirk, you've uncovered a maxim in the customer service world. The people who are the easiest to reach, and thus the easiest to curse out, aren't... more » Ryan_Long: For the past 6 years I've worked off and on for a San Francisco avant garde band that some no of, most do not, and the stories of the music industry a... more » dry-roasted-peanuts: "There's a theory that labels and publishers deliberately avoid creating the transparent accounting systems today's technology enables. Because accura... more » AmphetamineCrown: This doesn't seem to me like "cooking the books." Cooking the books implies a certain level of effort to mask the truth. As opposed to just not tell... more » LVP: I did not read this word for word, I'm at work but... "this doesn't mean Warner "lost" nearly $400,000" With all respect, they did lose nearly the a... more » OCEntertainment: Wow, this is a rare gem. You don't often see an article with this kind of detail given about how the industry works. Thanks, Tim. And furthermore, ac... more » NorwoodIsMyHero: In financial analysis and any investor's view of the company: "Just don't earn enough" = "lose". If they aren't making a decent return on their in... more » Alfisted: You're not being Petty, Tim. If you were, you'd release a whole album dedicated to ripping on the labels. more » Jeb_Hoge: The big music business is a hell of a thing. I've got one cousin who's been burned on at least two big-label record deals, and another who's been burn... more » GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga: Sadly I'm more of a fan of Mos Def's acting career than I am of his music. Is that wrong? more » EBone: My parent company has a deal w/ Microsoft for our employees to purchase either MS Exchange Suite 2007 or MS Office 2008 for Mac for $9.95 each, direct... more » -
#digitaldownloads
My $62.47 Royalty Statement: How Major Labels Cook the Books with Digital Downloads
Tim Quirk was the singer of punk-pop outfit Too Much Joy, signed by Warner Bros. in 1990. Now he's an executive at an online music service, giving him insight on digital sales data and just how labels fudge their numbers. More » -
#digitaldownloads
Mos Def Selling New Album Through T-Shirts
These days it takes a little more effort to push an entire album of music. For some, it's free digital downloads, for Mos Def, it's t-shirts. More » -
#listeningtest
Cool Album Art and Packaging: Records, Cassettes, CDs Then Nothing
CDs originally came in long boxes with amazing art. Word went around that they'd go away, since hippies—like Sting—were pissed off about killing trees, but I was sad. Music packaging says a lot about music. More » -
#editorial
I Love Downloadable Media, But It Makes For a Crappy Gift
iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and even PSN are all pretty good at distributing downloadable movies and music. But all of these data files, as easy as they are to buy, make for a crappy gift. More » -
#gaming
Amazon Game Downloads Store Offers 'Try Before You Buy' Titles for $10
Amazon has long offered music and movies for download and/or streaming. And now they've stepped into the wild world of video game downloads. More » -
#rumor
Is iTunes Ditching DRM Tomorrow?
Speculation aboutifwhen iTunes would score DRM-free tracks from all major studios like Amazon and Walmart do has been rampant, but according to a rumor at AppleInsider, all this speculation may come to an end tomorrow. More » -
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#digitaldownloads
Vudu's HD Offerings Top Everyone, They Offer $200 In Recognition of Their Own Awesomeness
While standard definition digital downloads are still gaining in popularity, Vudu has been actively building their HD catalog of streaming films. This week, Vudu adds 389 HD movies to break 1,000 HD titles available for streaming (actually, breaking 1,100 but that sounds so much less impressive). Vudu claims their digital library to be the largest HD library in the world (Blu-ray included). We hope it's not to long until we're running a 10,000 download follow up. More »
