{"id":19,"date":"2006-01-20T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-07T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T19:19:12","slug":"could-big-record-companies-be-understanding-the-long-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Could Big Record Companies be understanding the long tail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=19\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">from the  <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/\">CBC <\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the things that has been a bother since record companies started issuing back catalogues is they often avoided obscure acts and recordings that wouldn&#8217;t turn a profit. I guess that&#8217;s why they are big business. Now as they digitize everything (probably to save money and burn masters), someone has had a wacky idea: why not try to sell them, even if a small audience is the only chance of that? Some money is better than no money and no money is what they get if they don&#8217;t put it on sale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t win if you don&#8217;t play&#8230;&#8221;- lottery tag line<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/arts\/national\/2006\/01\/19\/universal-classics.html?ref=rss\">Classic recordings to be reissued on internet<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the CBC : One of the things that has been a bother since record companies started issuing back catalogues is they often avoided obscure acts and recordings that wouldn&#8217;t turn a profit. I guess that&#8217;s why they are big business. Now as they digitize everything (probably to save money and burn masters), someone has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}