The Business Rusch: In The Beginning (Discoverability Part 5)

Alert American music fans monitoring social media in the wee hours of Friday, December 13th, became—for a few hours anyway—the most newsworthy fan base in the world. Somewhere around midnight on either Thursday or Friday depending on the time zone,  Beyoncé—in the words of Consequence of Sound’s editor-in-chief Michael Roffman —“simply uploaded her fifth, eponymous-titled album to iTunes, complete with 17 videos to accompany the album’s […]

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The Business Rusch: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

I had a lot of marvelous, thoughtful comments on last week’s blog. I didn’t respond, in part because I was extremely busy this past week, but mostly because I would have been expressing my opinion on the commenter’s life and career choices. I try not to do that, particularly in public. We’re all different, and because of the new world of publishing, we all have […]

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The Business Rusch: Bestseller Lists and Other Thoughts

The Business Rusch: Bestseller Lists and Other Thoughts Kristine Kathryn Rusch On Tuesday, in my morning business reading, I came across a rather startling statistic: the claim that it only took 20,000 sales of paper books to hit the paper bestseller lists. I’m also assuming the statistic means paper; it might mean that it takes 20K to hit any bestseller list, which is still shockingly […]

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