Collection: Music in the Post-Scarcity Environment

[solarbird]

Starting in the autumn of 2012, I wrote a series of articles on doing music – and, really, anything creative – in the post-scarcity environment which digital reproduction has created. It got started by my reaction to an NPR commentary by an intern who noted she’d bought almost no music in her entire life, and went on to explore how one might build a new-model career in an environment where there is no actual constraint on supply.

These were popular enough that other people made link collections to them, so I made my own. I add to it as I write new instalments. Enjoy:

• Part 1: Emily White and Making Money in the Post-Scarcity Environment
• Part 2: It’s Worse Than I Thought: How the Recording Industry Made Music Ownership a Negative Value
• Part 3: Even Pressing Play Makes My Fingers Ache: Making Recording Profitable Again
• Part 4: Touring (Part 1)
• Part 5: Touring (Part 2)
• Part 6: The Long Tail of Zero is Still Zero (The Thousand Fan model)
• Part 7: The Same Model as Music (Manufacturing in a Post-Scarcity Environment)
• Part 8: The Prestigious Internship (a Fraud in Three Parts)
• Part 9: Google Makes its Move
• Part 10: Google, YouTube, and the Old Labels

And while these are not officially part of that series, they are entirely related:

• Facebook Destroys Everything
• Why YouTube Ignores Heather Dale (and will ignore you)

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