A Band Battles Ticketmaster on Sales Fees Methinks the plethora of people e-mailing me this story didn’t get past the headline. This is a false fight. This is not about Ticketmaster fees so much as allowing the band to sell more tickets by itself, surcharge free. Do you understand that? Let me explain… Bands have […]

TAXICAB CONFESSIONS He lied to the government to get free health care and then his wife had an affair. People in New York are different. Everybody in Los Angeles is trying to be famous, or luxuriating in the outdoor lifestyle. In NYC, they’re either on the track to get rich or they’re getting by. Life […]

It’s a publicity stunt. And based on my inbox, it worked. Hi, I’ve been on a plane all day, flying to NYC for Internet Week and then on to Philadelphia for the Non-Commvention. And the gentleman sitting next to me in business development for Amgen waxed rhapsodic that if only there was one site with […]

You know the music business is antiquated when it’s eclipsed by the classically moribund book business. On the front page of today’s "New York Times", there’s a story entitled: "Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking". It goes on to delineate just that, today’s authors are writing constantly, to slake […]