Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Thursday November 16th, 2006
> Apple has reportedly ordered 12 million (no typo) iPhone cell/music player combos from a Taiwanese firm.(Forbes)
> ZUNE NEWS:
- First day sales are slow. (Reuters)
- Warner Music Group technology guru Ethan Kaplan joined the chorus and gave the Zune store a lukewarm review on his personal blog. (blackrimglasses)
- Zune doesn’t work with Microsoft’s much touted new Vista operating system. (Hypebot)
> The National Endowment For The Arts is accusing NPR of abandoning classical, jazz and niche genres in favor of news and talk programming. NPR counters that their serving 
diverse music online better than ever. (Washington Post)
> The FCC is taking media ownership hearings on the road. (press release)
> Billy Bragg on the future of the music business. (BBC)
> Talk about the Long Tail…a 1965 Bob Dylan press conference is available on DVD (and it might actually be worth watching). (LA Times)
> Earshot of Greenville, SC and CD World in Eugene, OR have joined the Coalition Of Independent Music Stores. (CIMS) PS: They don’t much like Zune either. (see below)
