Re: ebooks "a smoke and mirrored mess"?

Is this meant to be tongue-in-cheek? I don't actively pursue music on 
the Internet very much, but my impression is that there are a good many 
mid-range performers finding reasonably-sized audiences via 
intermediaries such as Magnatunes and Last.FM. I've listened to quite a 
few of the Magnatunes offerings and while few of them have inspired me 
to investigate further, most of them are presented to a high 
professional standard. I don't know what the musical equivalent of 
'needing a good edit' is, but it doesn't seem to fit here. The overall 
average quality is at least as good as that heard on Top 40 radio. And 
Magnatunes is still growing, so it must be giving something back to its 
suppliers.

Jon.

On 16/06/10 14:04, David Major wrote:
>
> That Huffington article was interesting, and raised some good points. 
> I've heard a similar line of reasoning before - that the cheapness and 
> sheer amount of ebooks will create a massive underclass of authors who 
> publish their own work, usually still in need of a good edit, and who 
> sell a few copies in obscurity, and a small elite of authors who are 
> superstars, who receive all the hype and become buzzwords on the 
> interwebs, and sell accordingly. Exactly the same as has happened with 
> music.
> David
>
> _._,


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