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7 Jan

Competing on other than Price for Music Sales

by Barry Ritholtz
Decommoditizing Commodity Products: We’ve been looking at price competition for retail music sales; I normally care very little...

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6 Jan

Music Retailers Competing on Price

by Barry Ritholtz
We previously discussed how “Music Sales were Rising on Aggressive Discounting, Price Competition and an Improving Economy.”...

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21 Dec

Music Sales Rise on Aggressive Discounting, Price Competition...

by Barry Ritholtz
In the most under-reported story this year, music sales rose this past quarter. For the first time in nearly 3 years, pre-recorded music...

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19 Dec

Court to RIAA: Drop Dead

by Barry Ritholtz
Here’s the best overview on the legal situation, from the always interesting GMSV: “Silly.” That’s how a U.S....

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20 Nov

U.S. Music Sales Up

by Barry Ritholtz
Does the improving U.S. economy have anything to do with this? How about a slew of new and critically well reviewed CDs? The availability...

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11 Nov

Apple’s iTunes wins “Coolest Innovation” of...

by Barry Ritholtz
The 99¢ Solution: Time magazine picked Apple’s iTunes as the “coolest new technology” in the music category for 2003....

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5 Nov

Is the threat of online piracy receding?

by Barry Ritholtz
Upbeat, from the Economist online. “To glimpse the future, big music companies should look not at iTunes’ encouraging numbers...

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27 Oct

MIT’s legal alternative to file-swapping

by Barry Ritholtz
Here’s a clever way around the file sharing conundrum: Essentially a streaming audio over cable (similar to a Satellite Radio, only...

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21 Oct

iTunes Associate Program?

by Barry Ritholtz
Since we’ve been looking at the business models of so many streaming, peering and music industry start ups, I thought it would be...

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13 Oct

iRATE Radio follow up

by Barry Ritholtz
UPDATE Here’s a quick update since we first looked at iRATE Radio. I’ve been playing with iRate for the past week or so. A few...

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      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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