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So this morning, Radiohead began offering their new album, "In Rainbows," as a download at pay-as-you-wish prices from their website. I'm still at home, so I haven't tried to actually download yet; will do that as soon as I get to the office.
Incidentally, I decided to pay 1.45 Eurobucks (I offered 1.00 and there's a 0.45 credit-card charge; I suspect you can pay 0.00 but it's still a 0.45 minimum charge).
If you plan to get a copy, too, here's their download website. It loads slowly, but way faster than I had expected for this event on release day.
Here's a track-by-track preview of the album by Rolling Stone magazine. Here's the Telegraph's story about this event.
Exciting! This is a great model for fiction, too, I think. I suggest authors look into this - a simple and cost-effective way to do this would be for authors to create a unified download site for their works so everyone wouldn't need to manage their own server farm the way Radiohead is doing. Authors, artists, and other content creators could also sell print, CD, DVD, and other media directly to customers for an agreed amount, as well, again cutting out the publisher/production house/label, distributor, and retailer in a single go.
To better consider this new concept, I've created posted a poll about this:
[Poll #1069048]
Best,
Chris
Incidentally, I decided to pay 1.45 Eurobucks (I offered 1.00 and there's a 0.45 credit-card charge; I suspect you can pay 0.00 but it's still a 0.45 minimum charge).
If you plan to get a copy, too, here's their download website. It loads slowly, but way faster than I had expected for this event on release day.
Here's a track-by-track preview of the album by Rolling Stone magazine. Here's the Telegraph's story about this event.
Exciting! This is a great model for fiction, too, I think. I suggest authors look into this - a simple and cost-effective way to do this would be for authors to create a unified download site for their works so everyone wouldn't need to manage their own server farm the way Radiohead is doing. Authors, artists, and other content creators could also sell print, CD, DVD, and other media directly to customers for an agreed amount, as well, again cutting out the publisher/production house/label, distributor, and retailer in a single go.
To better consider this new concept, I've created posted a poll about this:
[Poll #1069048]
Best,
Chris