"Credit a bulging teen population, a surge of global talent and perhaps a bit of Harry Potter afterglow as the preteen Muggles of yesteryear carry an ingrained reading habit into later adolescenc
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"So are we headed to a world where the only stable jobs are those that absolutely require hands-on contact -- health maintenance, grooming, and the like? Or to one where wages even out across the
"...many professionals make their money from photographs that are no longer news - the stock images sold by picture libraries. This is the market that the web will devastate." Carriage maker
"Sparter is a new entry in the real money trading industry that uses an eBay-like “peer-to-peer” approach for the buying and selling of game gold for World of Warcraft and other MMORPG online gam
"For people who seem to think that their can be no other model for musicians other than signing big record label deals, here's yet another example of why that's wrong." The long tail is a-la
"Orbit, a damned fine SF&F imprint, has had a record year, recording their highest sales since their inception in 1974 and taking a huge chunk of the UK SF&F books sales for 2006." S
"It's not a con game. It's a village-sized market. In fact it's a tourist attraction-type village: the big numbers of the people you see are one-time visitors[...] But it's not thick; it's tiny.
"Of course, we don't really know how to price an acre of SL land, given that there aren't ready RL or even Internet equivalents...except we do. The land market is doing that for us." The rea
"Instead of paying commercial interest rates, 74 per cent of Britons say they would consider turning to the growing internet phenomenon of social lending." Very interesting - free market eco
"They like the free market, don’t they?" They sure do. Never thought I'd hear myself agreeing with economists, but there's a first time for everything.
"In the last decades, we have seen the content business have to adapt to a frightening new reality: The cost to create a minute of content has risen exponentially, but the fair market value of a