The Great Unbundling

The music industry has, at least relative to newspapers, come out of the shift to the Internet in relatively good shape; while piracy drove the music labels into the arms of Apple, which unbundled the album into the song, streaming has rewarded the integration of back catalogs and new music with bundle economics.

Source: The Great Unbundling – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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