This 2009 report was commissioned by UK Music looking at how a for-profit industry comes to terms with competing with many, many free outlets to product that it once charged for.
As one of the document’s anchors, I keep returning to a not less than prophetic interview with the late Steve Jobs, from Rolling Stone 2003 (just before the launch of iTunes). The reason I did this?
“Despite interviewing over 60 people from across the music industry, I have quoted Jobs’ because I believe his independence, allied to his subsequent success since the birth of iTunes, will be convincing where the objectivity of quoted music insiders may be doubted.”
