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The entertainment industry, reflecting the world at large, has been obsessed with the wrong question: how do we MAKE people pay for content? What if we started thinking about it the other way around: how do we LET people pay for content?

Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Symphony’s challenge currently is squeezing revenue out of its customers. It overtook Bloomberg’s 332,000 user count in 2018. But it charges US$24,000 for up to 100 seats, rather than the US$24,000 Bloomberg charges for one. Also, its network tends to be more internal than Bloomberg’s, with as many banks on it but fewer of their clients. Last year ... See more

Marc Rubinstein • Disrupting Bloomberg

Beacons: The Storefront for the Multi-SKU Creator that's Growing 3X Monthly

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Attachment and Bundling Potential for Act II, III, and Beyond

Nikhil Basu Trivedi • 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Consumer Subscriptions

McCormack is quite certain that the practice of measuring a book’s potential “contribution,” rather than creating an artificial P&L that incorporated an overhead percentage, was a primary driver of St. Martin’s period of profitable title growth.

Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®

And even Spotify, one of the largest digital subscription businesses in the world — which divulged last week that it’s paying between around $140 million to $195 million to buy The Ringer — still makes its podcasts available for free in its app, not requiring a Premium subscription. That may change someday. But purchasing The Ringer — and Gimlet Me... See more

“It’s a Gold Mine”: Inside The Washington Post’s Big Hollywood Deal

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