Comments on: to have and to hoard http://whatconsumesme.com/2009/posts-ive-written/to-have-and-to-hoard/ marketing meets culture Thu, 17 May 2012 13:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: what consumes me, bud caddell » to have and to hoard, part two http://whatconsumesme.com/2009/posts-ive-written/to-have-and-to-hoard/comment-page-1/#comment-1724 what consumes me, bud caddell » to have and to hoard, part two Tue, 19 May 2009 00:50:10 +0000 http://whatconsumesme.com/?p=1569#comment-1724 [...] thought it pertinent to follow up to my earlier post on music collecting with the news of Napster’s newest [...] [...] thought it pertinent to follow up to my earlier post on music collecting with the news of Napster’s newest [...]

]]> By: Gareth http://whatconsumesme.com/2009/posts-ive-written/to-have-and-to-hoard/comment-page-1/#comment-1712 Gareth Sat, 16 May 2009 01:00:28 +0000 http://whatconsumesme.com/?p=1569#comment-1712 Great post Bud. The whole hoarding thing is interesting. When I worked on Napster a while ago, we found their biggest challenge was people's understanding and appetite for subscriptions services. On the face of it why would you want to own music - you can sample all you want for a low monthly fee on Napster, Rhapsody or eMusic. Despite music now being zeros and ones rather than something physical, the industry has taught people for years that you have to own (or perhaps now with file sharing have) music in order to experience it. Feels like there might need to be some kind of nudge to break this. Until then I, like many others, will continue to fill hard drive after hard drive Great post Bud.
The whole hoarding thing is interesting. When I worked on Napster a while ago, we found their biggest challenge was people’s understanding and appetite for subscriptions services. On the face of it why would you want to own music – you can sample all you want for a low monthly fee on Napster, Rhapsody or eMusic. Despite music now being zeros and ones rather than something physical, the industry has taught people for years that you have to own (or perhaps now with file sharing have) music in order to experience it.
Feels like there might need to be some kind of nudge to break this. Until then I, like many others, will continue to fill hard drive after hard drive

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]]> By: Tom http://whatconsumesme.com/2009/posts-ive-written/to-have-and-to-hoard/comment-page-1/#comment-1709 Tom Fri, 15 May 2009 13:57:40 +0000 http://whatconsumesme.com/?p=1569#comment-1709 Last.FM charts - skewed though its demographic is - suggest the most played tracks are hits too (though what's most-played from particular artists is often more interesting). But the long tail question isn't "what gets to be a hit", it's "what percentage of volume do those hits account for"? Last.FM charts – skewed though its demographic is – suggest the most played tracks are hits too (though what’s most-played from particular artists is often more interesting).

But the long tail question isn’t “what gets to be a hit”, it’s “what percentage of volume do those hits account for”?

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