Das Rolling Stone Magazine über den Niedergang der Musikindustrie in einer zweiteiligen, sehr lesenswerten Serie:
Teil 1 – The Record Industry’s Decline:
Record sales are tanking, and there’s no hope in sight: How it all went wrong
… WeiterlesenThe major labels are struggling to reinvent their business models, even as some wonder whether it’s too late. „The record business is over,“ says music attorney Peter Paterno, who represents Metallica and Dr. Dre. „The labels have wonderful assets — they just can’t make any money off them.“ One senior music-industry source who requested anonymity went further: „Here we have a business that’s dying. There won’t be any major labels pretty soon.“ [..]
So who killed the record industry as we knew it? „The record companies have created this situation themselves,“ says Simon Wright, CEO of Virgin Entertainment Group, which operates Virgin Megastores.