We like the simplicity of Nokia’s gadget. Other solutions tend towards the complicated, with magnets or hub dynamos providing the juice. With bikes, though, simple is almost always best.Hands brought in the former BBC director general John Birt to lead a strategic review. Birt, known for his cost cutting and unintelligible business speak, uncovered a long list of excesses and shoddy business practices expensive flowers, candles, and luxury apartments. Hands told staff they should stop attending parties and work harder. Artists, he said, needed to behave better. There is no reason why we should not be more selective in whom we choose to work with, he wrote in an internal memo. There has been a lot of talk about what labels offer to artists and to the consumer. However, there is not much talk about how artists should work with their label.But what is that sales engine for the 2010s, recording or otherwise? After years of disruption, DIY hype, and VC fueled zeal, this is a question still staring the industry in the face Sure, Trent Reznor can snap his fingers and make $750,000 on superfan box sets Radiohead can shock the world with a name your price experiment But those are not scalable ideas for a next generation of artists, rather, they represent interesting sales concepts for a limited group of established names.
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