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Squidco.com sells avant, unusual, experimental, improvisational music CDs, magazines and books
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Michael Ricci
Squidco is an online mail-order record store, specializing in avant and free forms of jazz and improvisation, eclectic compositional music, and avant rock. Squidco sells CDs, LPs, DVDs, cassettes, books and magazines—cultural artefacts of a fascinating modern music scene steeped in decades of tradition. With a catalog of over 6,000 hard-to-find items, Squidco sells music to thousands of dedicated music fans around the world. Squidco emphasizes fast, friendly service, with low shipping rates. Their website presents an easy interface in ...
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License to Lie - What Made Music Magazines Great
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HypeBot
It is no secret that music magazines, like many publications, are in decline. Part of the reason for this appears to be straightforward—information on artists and their music is now abundant. From music blogs to Wikipedia to an artist's Twitter account, fans now have unlimited access to the updates of an artist and will likely hear their new music weeks before a magazine can write about it. So, why subscribe to a publication that aims to update you about things ...
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If Apple Squeezes Magazines, Are Music Services Next?
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Digital Music News
Something is happening in the iPad publishing world that has music subscription services worried. Depends on who you talkto, but we now know that Apple is moving to require magazines to block non-app subscription payments. Meaning, magazines (or newspapers, or whatever) will no longer be able to collect their own money and data for iPad subs—rather, they must direct customers through Apple's in-app billing mechanism. And of course, Apple then takes its healthy, 30 percent (plus) cut. This gets complicated, ...
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First Looks: Magazines on the iPad
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Michael Ricci
Last week, a video of online magazine VIVmag's iPad app made the rounds on the web. Featured in The New York Times as a taste of digital reading's future, this extraordinary, interactive video-infused 'zine was beautiful to watch, but left many others questioning if the expense of creating tablet-ready content like this was actually feasible.
For some, that answer - surprisingly - may be yes. According to Jeanniey Mullen, CMO of the magazine's distributor, Zinio, the cost was not as ...
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Google Unveils Fast Flip for Newspapers and Magazines
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Michael Ricci
Google, which has been likened to “parasites" and “tapeworms" by editors who resent the company's efforts to aggregate news on the Web, this afternoon offered an olive branch to publishers of newspapers and magazines.
Unveiled by Marissa Mayer at a TechCrunch 50 event in San Francisco, Fast Flip is actually more of a carrot than an olive branch, because it offers publishers a potential additional revenue stream.
Here's how it works.
Readers can rapidly browse articles much like flipping through ...
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The 3 Biggest Reasons Music Magazines Are Dying
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HypeBot
It's no secret that music magazines a rapidly becoming a relic of another era. Most blame a decline in advertising revenue coupled with the growth of free online music media. But ex-Blender staffer Jonah Weiner suggests there are other factors killing our once beloved music rags in his Slate piece “Spinning In The Grave“.
There are fewer superstars, and the same musicians show up on every magazine cover. Music mags have less to offer music lovers, ...read more
Ari Hest '52' in Homestretch, Nat'l Magazines Set Coverage
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Seth Cohen PR
Hest in Homestretch of Unique '52' Project, with 7 Weeks To Go; “And you thought Radiohead had come up with a creative business model…" Soon to be Featured in Performing Songwriter Magazine, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Performer Magazine West Coast Tour Confirmed The finish line is on the horizon for singer-songwriter Ari Hest, as his remarkable '52' project nears its final weeks. Started this past January, '52' features Hest writing, recording, producing and releasing one new song per week, for 52 ...
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Jazz Magazines Bad for Jazz?
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Night Lights Classic Jazz
A blogger at the Princeton Record Exchange Club takes jazz media to task for “vacuous writing, PR cliches, and tame thinking," singling out Downbeat and Jazz Times as primary suspects. The writing and argument is a little rough around the edges, but it's a provocative point. Like the author, I subscribe to both magazines, and there's no doubt that they represent the mainstream jazz “establishment," such as it is. But are they really damaging jazz, as he suggests? Would the ...
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