Open access and the rock music industry

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

An interesting story from USA Today, along the same lines as open 
access and journal publishing, except that it discusses how some bands 
actually benefit from allowing free access to, and file sharing of, 
their music.

In one example, the band Wilco had record setting sales (for them) when 
they released an album that had been freely available on file sharing 
services for nearly a year.

http://tinyurl.com/2nn5e

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820

Phone: (217) 333-4895
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E-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu