Since its launch in 2009, Greedhead Music has reshaped the way indie rappers think about business, merging artist development with innovative distribution models.
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Digital downloads and other new technology hold the same vast promise--but only if you can find the magic combination of technology, talent and distribution models.
Since the fine fragrance industry as a whole has taken a beating during the recession (the NPD Group says American department store sales have been down 15% from 2007 to 2009), some companies are even playing with their distribution models.
Incentives or compulsory licenses should be put in place to encourage publishing companies to move to new distribution and pricing models.
Bottom line: there are lots of new, talented editor-curators out there who are attracting an audience using different labor, distribution and economic models.
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New products, services, distribution paths and business models would appear out of nowhere and cause damage to the old and slow.
The final strategy will be different for every company because it must depend on a company's specific targeted consumers, product categories, sales and distribution system, marketing models, competitors, and economics.
Although details remain scarce, both companies are rumored to be planning cloud- and subscription-based models for music distribution.
They can do so by focusing on the cross platform experience, embracing new distribution platforms and expanding revenue models.
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Announcements will likely be around revenue models, increasing distribution of the Android-based TV operating system, a browser that works better so consumer content discovery and viewing are clearer, and a software development kit with better tools.
But the judges believe that the festival not only points to new ways of filmmaking and distribution, but also new business models.
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And publishers and libraries are exploring a brave new world of content creation and distribution that disrupts not just business models, but the very concept of how we share ideas, facts, and fiction on the printed page.
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The authors' models suggest that a less equitable distribution of wealth can boost demand for government borrowing to provide for the lagging average worker.
With the arrival of new models and the better structure of their distribution networks, Chinese cars must further intensify competition in the Brazilian market.
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"Once we have those trees we look at distribution of these different word order features over the descendant languages, and build evolutionary models for what's most likely to produce the diversity that we observe in the world, " Dr Dunn said.
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