Links for 03-06-2007
Record industry on the rocks, Eric Flint on DRM and ebooks, why vice is good for the metaverse…
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1 – Plunge in CD Sales Shakes Up Big Labels
“It’s a maddening juxtaposition for more than one top record-label executive. Music may still be a big force in pop culture — from “Idol” to the iPod — but the music business’s own comeback attempt is falling flat.”
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2 – Gary K. Wolfe reviews Ken MacLeod’s “Execution Channel”
“It not only draws on traditions of the disaster novel, the alternate-world scenario, and the cyberthriller, but early on begins dropping hints that something more radical may be at stake…”
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3 – Books: The Opaque Market (Eric Flint)
“In this essay, I want to turn the problem around and approach it from a positive standpoint, by examining the many ways in which a non-DRM approach to electronic publishing can help the situation of authors and publishers.”
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4 – Time Wasted? Perhaps It’s Well Spent
“In other words, what looks like wasting time from where you sit, could be a whirl of creative thought from where I sit.”
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5 – Why Pornographers And Gamblers Are Good For Second Life
“…the underworlds of porn and gambling are likely to go down in history for making some of the greatest contributions to emerging virtual worlds, including Second Life.”
