The “Big Flip”
Clay Shirky outlines the “Big Flip” that the Internet has produced, and why it hasn’t quite carried over to the music business yet.
The internet has lowered the threshold of publishing to the point where you no longer need help or permission to distribute your work. What has happened with writing may be possible with music. Like writers, most musicians who work for fame and fortune get neither, but unlike writers, the internet has not offered wide distribution to people making music for the love of the thing. A system that offered musicians a chance at finding an audience outside the professional system would appeal to at least some of them.
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