Rob on Radiohead

Rob Myers has written up two great posts on Radiohead’s new album, when it came out and more recently. Choice quote:

Doing the maths shows that Radiohead still made more money … They are getting what money they can from downloaders before the finished album can be leaked. And they are targeting collectors with a package that costs four times what a simple CD release does. This simultaneously captures value that would be lost to filesharers and unrealised with collectors if the tracks were released on a CD through supermarkets some time next year. This is all the value that can currently be captured for an album without alienating fans and thereby paradoxically reducing value by trying to maximize it.
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November 19, 2007 |

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