New Music Business Briefing: New iPods & Cheaper iPhone, Universal Adds 3 Digital VP What Is Indie? & Much More
>>> Apple is planning new iPods that feel like iPhones (Billboard) and a cheaper Nano based iPhone (Reuters) just in time for Christmas sales.
>>> A look at Rick Rubin’s rise and future at Columbia Records. (NY Daily News)
>>> Universal went VP crazy yesterday naming three to head digital sales, marketing and product development. (Billboard.biz) In 5 years will these execs be left standing and their physical goods counterparts put out to pasture?
>>> RealNetworks smartly has added lyric search from LyricFind to its Rhapsody music service. (DMW)
>>> Fellow music industry blogger Coolfer has dropped all ads and is asking for donations to keep his site going. "People often ask me how I have time to work/go to school full time and keep up the blog. My schedule is one reason to drop the ads." (Coolfer) Good luck with the change Glenn and
pssssssssst….Hypebot still gladly takes ads.
>>>A Yahoo! Music "upgrade" has fans of MusicMatch fuming. (Slashdot)
>>> The UK’s Guardian explores what it means to be Indie in 2007.
>>> WORTHY CLICK: Rocksurgeon’s Music 2.0 Directory. There are several of these out there but this is the best. Bookmark is and spend some time there.
