Comments on: IP Wars: Episode Two http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/01/ip-wars-episode-two/ crass, boorish and more a bruiser than blogger Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:00:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: James Graham http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/01/ip-wars-episode-two/#comment-144199 James Graham Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:30:21 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/01/ip-wars-episode-two/#comment-144199 I remember poring over my dad's War of the Worlds album as a kid, soaking up the artwork. No-one produces stuff like that any more, yet they all churn out books, calendars and the lot by the bucketload. My guess is that the market for such tie-ins and the physical purchase of music will end up merging into one. I consider the latest Kylie calendar infinitely better value than her latest album, certainly. I remember poring over my dad’s War of the Worlds album as a kid, soaking up the artwork. No-one produces stuff like that any more, yet they all churn out books, calendars and the lot by the bucketload.

My guess is that the market for such tie-ins and the physical purchase of music will end up merging into one. I consider the latest Kylie calendar infinitely better value than her latest album, certainly.

]]> By: Peter Bancroft http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/01/ip-wars-episode-two/#comment-144175 Peter Bancroft Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:16:04 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/01/ip-wars-episode-two/#comment-144175 I wonder what the future of physical music purchasing is. The Internet will soon be ubiquitous and ever-present (3G, WIMAX, local Wifi, etc) and hard-drive based music stores will be the norm in just a few years. Why would you want to have to cart a physical data store when you can instantly get music from a retail front into your media collection - presumably available on your mobile music device and your home entertainment system at once. I think that you're right about the way that there is a future in going back to the past of packaging, but what form will that take? If physical at all, might it be like a collectible playing card, or maybe something else? I wonder what the future of physical music purchasing is. The Internet will soon be ubiquitous and ever-present (3G, WIMAX, local Wifi, etc) and hard-drive based music stores will be the norm in just a few years. Why would you want to have to cart a physical data store when you can instantly get music from a retail front into your media collection - presumably available on your mobile music device and your home entertainment system at once.

I think that you’re right about the way that there is a future in going back to the past of packaging, but what form will that take? If physical at all, might it be like a collectible playing card, or maybe something else?

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