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If that were really true then the practice of taking cuts from the cost of copies to pay everyone involved would still be working, but it isn't. And there appe

by m0llusk 9mo ago

If that were really true then the practice of taking cuts from the cost of copies to pay everyone involved would still be working, but it isn't. And there appear to be differences between media, for example daily papers are different from novels are different from songs are different from albums and so on.

com2kid 9mo ago
Newspapers always made their money from commercial and classified ads. Craigslist killed journalism decades ago, LinkedIn and Facebook Marketplace are the modern successors to CL. Google adwords finished the job. Newspapers subscription prices only ever covered a small % of the overall costs. Spotify is a complicated racket, there are some very good video essays exploring who is making money off of Spotify (it isn't Spotify and it isn't the artists!), a but the rabbit hole there goes deep.