First Billion Dollar eBook
Posted on October 25, 2010
Today’s interview is with Randy Ingermanson who is a “deranged physicist and award winning author”. He also maintains a blog and monthly e-zine about advanced fiction writing. His Ph.D. is from Berkeley where Robert Oppenheimer led development of the atomic bomb and taught a generation or so before Randy arrived. As a high school graduate Randy was named a Presidential Scholar along with others who were among the top 500 in either the SAT or ACT tests.
His stories are at the “intersection of Science Avenue and Faith Boulevard”. Representative novels include Double Vision, Transgression, Premonition, Retribution, and The Fifth Man. Two books won Christy Awards for Futuristic Fiction.
Download audio interview here (25 minutes).
Recently, Randy pondered “what it would take” for an author to make a billion dollars from a book. He concluded if such a goal were possible, it would likely be an e-book for two reasons. First, author royalties on e-books are about ten times greater than for traditional books. Second, authors can better market e-book titles than conventional ones. Read more…
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Music’s Next Evolution
Posted on May 20, 2010
David Pakman
Today’s audio podcast is an interview with David Pakman who has been a venture capital Partner with Venrock since 2008. Earlier he was the CEO of eMusic where he led the online retailer to sell more music download tracks than any competitor except Apple’s iTunes. Before joining eMusic he Co-Founded MyPlay which pioneered online music lockers. MyPlay was sold to Bertelsmann shortly after the turn-of-the-century. Earlier David was a digital music innovator with N2K and Apple.
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David believes that the recorded music business has reached yet another mutation point. Over the past decade worldwide revenues dropped from $40 billion to about $17 billion. Furthermore, unless the industry begins to proceed along a new evolutionary path he predicts the declines will continue for another five years before bottoming-out at perhaps $7 billion. Read more…
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Two Conflicting Music Opportunites
Posted on April 26, 2010
Phil Leigh
The Internet presents the music industry with two potent but conflicting opportunities.
First, it can replace radio as a more effective tool for promoting music while simultaneously avoiding costly disguised forms of payola that continue to linger. This applies not only to new releases, which traditionally have been the industry’s lifeblood, but also to old tracks which often fall into minimal demand.
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Internet Eclipses the Printing Press
Posted on April 9, 2008
The Internet is a more important invention than the printing press because of its (1) frictionless publishing, (2) interactivity, and (3) multimedia characteristics. Read more…
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The Media & Internet Experience on Campus
Posted on December 15, 2007
If you would like to get some insight into what media and Internet usage is like within the student body of a major university, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Matt Ragas who is a PhD candidate in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida with a student body numbering 51,000. After his Bachelor’s, Matt spent eight years in the business world where he was a successful Internet entrepreneur having authored two books and participating as a co-founder in Raging Bull.com and Indie Research. He fascinates us with tales of how much the Internet and Digital Media has changed the campus experience since his undergraduate years. Read more…
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Web 2.0 Winners
Posted on November 24, 2007
Summary: Today’s video is a narrative summary of our November 8th analytical report entitled, “Gravitational Attraction in the Internet Cloud”.
A defining characteristic of Web 2.0 is the adoption of the Internet cloud as a computing platform. It is the culmination of an evolutionary trend that started with mainframes, proceeded through the PC, and followed with the Local Area Network (LAN). Each platform transition provided an opportunity for new industry leaders to emerge, and the movement into Web 2.0 is no exception. Read more…
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Gravitational Centers in the Internet Cloud
Posted on November 8, 2007
Summary
A defining characteristic of Web 2.0 is the adoption of the Internet cloud as a computing platform. It is the culmination of an evolutionary trend that started with mainframes, followed to the PC, and then the Local Area Network (LAN). Each platform transition provided an opportunity for new industry leaders to emerge, and the movement into Web 2.0 is no exception. Read more…
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Why Did Microsoft Invest in FaceBook?
Posted on October 30, 2007
If you would like to learn why Microsoft made a $240 million investment in FaceBook that values the four-year-old company at $15 billion, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Matt Rosoff who is an Analyst with Directions-on-Microsoft. His company specializes in analyzing where Microsoft will be going in the future. Read more…
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