The music industry changed forever on October 23, 2001. That’s the day the little company in Cupertino, California unveiled a new way for music lovers to carry “1,000 songs in [their] pocket.” The name:  iPod.
Now, the iPod wasn’t really a new idea. Understand that Apple was actually late to the MP3 dance. Three years earlier, Eiger [...]

Today’s the day. The music industry had theirs’ when Apple unveiled iTunes; now the publishing industry’s turn is up and there’s LOTS of debate about what the Apple tablet means for authors, publishers, and consumers. For all of the buzz and debate I can’t help but think that most of the naysayers are getting it [...]

From Geekdom to Wall Street, all eyes will focus on Cupertino, CA on Wednesday when Steve Jobs steps on stage to, presumably, unveil the long rumored Mac tablet (aka “The iUnicorn” because many have said it doesn’t exist). Whether or not you believe the digital publishing shake-up is imminent doesn’t matter. At all. It’s already [...]

I live in “Music City,” aka Nashville. For many of my friends who work in music it’s also known as Ground Zero. Over the past few years they’ve had a front row seat to the greatest distribution shift of our time. It was a little thing called the mp3. Thanks to the advent of digital [...]