I had a long conversation with a promoter who told me that with regard to a show he was promoting, Ticketmaster was guaranteeing the secondary market for the act. Let me explain this to you.  A certain number of tickets are pulled from the manifest and ultimately sold on TicketsNow.  Ticketmaster guarantees a certain gross […]

There’s too much music made by too many people and performers are frustrated they’re broke and listeners are completely overwhelmed.  What’s going to happen? Hit music will survive.  Even if the definition of a hit is a shadow of its former self.  There won’t be as many sales, few people will even be aware of […]

I was going to write about Saul Hansell’s article in the "New York Times" about the sale of "iPhone: The Missing Manual" at the App Store.  Mr. Hansell focused on the fact that people paid for it, but more interesting to me was that not only was this the number one computer book this year, […]