Rebuilding the Music Industry through Community

Rebuilding Earthquake Struck Nepal through Community Engagement

Nepal underwent two major earthquakes during 2015 which claimed 9,000 deaths, left more than 23,000 injured, displaced about 2 million people and destroyed about 1,000 health facilities. Emerging health issues and disease outbreaks soon after the earthquakes were major priorities. However, preventive measures such as health education, health promotion and trainings embedded in community engagem...

Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits.

There is considerable debate about whether community ecology will ever produce general principles. We suggest here that this can be achieved but that community ecology has lost its way by focusing on pairwise species interactions independent of the environment. We assert that community ecology should return to an emphasis on four themes that are tied together by a two-step process: how the fund...

Stealing (From) the Music Industry

The record industry is desperately trying to cope with the spread of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems and salvage its business model. Meanwhile, these same P2P networks present a tremendous opportunity for technology companies to reinvent consumers’ relationship with music. I argue that a new business model based on open content can be just as revolutionary for the way society interacts with music as...

Is iTunes Killing the Music Industry? The Effect of Unbundled Track Sales on Music Industry Profits

Motivation and Research Question The plight of the record industry is well known – sales of recorded music have fallen steadily since 2000 as the growth of digital sales has not been fast enough to compensate for the decline of physical cd sales. For example, in 2007 alone physical sales fell 13% to $15.9 billion while digital sales grew by 34% to just $2.9 billion, leading to an overall 8% dec...

The Future of the Music Industry