I spew many many many ideas, comments, theories and opinions on this site. They’re all conveniently tagged “bitching” for you to easily peruse.
Many of the things I talk about get picked up later by someone else and explained much more clearly, and less vehemently than my original post.
It happened with my discussion on AdSense becoming invisible, and today it happened with digital media.
Seth Godin writes:
Blockbuster buys DVDs for $15 or $20 (probably a lot less in volume, but I have no clue what the real number is)…
Blockbuster then rents them out 30 or 40 or more times each, meaning each rental costs Blockbuster fifty cents. Not to mention rent, surly clerks, cost of capital, advertising, etc.
In the case of online rentals, all of these intermediate costs immediately disappear. Gone.
So, why try to mimic the current model when it comes to pricing if the costs are mostly gone?[source]
Compare that with what I wrote 2 weeks ago.
..with digital sales rising, the books should really be balanced because of the decreased costs in manufacturing and transporting music that’s digital. All you have to do is upload a song once and you’re done. You don’t have to burn cd’s, print artwork or stuff jewel boxes, all you do is throw the song on a server and cash the cheques. [source]
Seth’s words are more properly, concisely and persuasively phrased than mine, but you can see the ideas are the same.
Did Seth steal my idea? No. He just explained it better. Comme toujours.
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