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Joel bookmarked on 2005-10-03 future music
  • The most important departments at a record label are Artists & Repertoire,
    and Marketing. A&R's job is to find new talent, and Marketing's job is to
    publicize it. These are both genuinely hard tasks, and unlike production or
    distribution, there is no serious competition for those functions outside the
    labels
  • Thanks to software like ProTools and CakeWalk, the production of music is
    heavily digital. Thanks to Napster and its heirs like Gnutella and Kazaa, the
    reproduction and distribution of music is also digital. As usual, this
    digitization has taken an enormous

This link has been bookmarked by 6 people . It was first bookmarked on 02 Mar 2006, by Joel Liu.

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    • The most important departments at a record label are Artists & Repertoire,
      and Marketing. A&R's job is to find new talent, and Marketing's job is to
      publicize it. These are both genuinely hard tasks, and unlike production or
      distribution, there is no serious competition for those functions outside the
      labels
    • Thanks to software like ProTools and CakeWalk, the production of music is
      heavily digital. Thanks to Napster and its heirs like Gnutella and Kazaa, the
      reproduction and distribution of music is also digital. As usual, this
      digitization has taken an enormous
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