I love free music! Who doesn’t? And lately some big names in the music biz have been exploring alternative revenue and distribution models for their artistic endeavours. Translated this means that users have been able to download new music over the Internet at little or no cost.
Radiohead set the ball rolling in October last year when they announced that their latest album “In Rainbows” would be available to download at whatever price the user decides! Official sales figures have never been released, but this tactic appears to have worked. Sales figures of 1.2 million copies have been suggested, and with an average price per download of just over the £1 mark, the maths speaks for itself. And this is without distribution or retails costs - just pure profit (minus the relatively small website hosting and bandwidth costs).
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Christmas 2007 is almost here. Stores are packed with harassed shoppers, overworked staff and , so I thought I would continue with this theme and list the best selling toys of the past 10 years as determined by the British Association of Toy Retailers (BATR).
1997 - The Year of the Teletubby
The Teletubbies marked a revolution in pre-school television. Anyone who was around and the time will remember the incredible launch of the Teletubbies toy range, and how near on impossible it was to get one. So it was no surprise that it became the BATR Toy of the Year in 1997. I remember being in Hamleys in London and people were grabbing as many as they could of them off of the shelves as soon as new stock was put out. I did actually manage to obtain 2 Teletubbies that year: total cost = £45. 10 years later, what do I see but Teletubbies in Woolworths for £7.50 a piece!
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Winamp are set to release their new version on 10th October. I’ve written a quick post over at last100.com detailing the new features.
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