Commentators inside the music industry this week weighed in on how messenger bots can be employed
in digital music marketing, what smart speakers mean for the music industry, and Spotify's CEO speaks on Spotify's stock offering.
I hope that publishers take heed from the
evolving digital music market and recognize that a sole provider for ebooks is stifling for the market.
Can Amazon do for the fledgling e-book market what Apple did for
the digital music market?
Apple is doing to the tablet market what it did to
the digital music market 10 years ago.
That's how
the digital music market played out with Apple.
Unlike
the digital music market where iTunes rules the roost or the growing online book world anchored by Amazon, there is no centralized outlet for comics online nor is there a common format shared amongst the growing number of sales players.
Unlikely that any of this will do much to change Zune's standing in
the digital music market, however, considering iTunes» complete dominance.
As of last summer, the Zune's market share of
the digital music market was a tiny 2.6 percent to iTunes» 69.1 percent and AmazonMP3's 7.6 percent.
Microsoft has been persistent in its pursuit of
the digital music market for most of this century.