3wdl's Blog

The always interesting Jeff Jarvis has suggested in his column in The Guardian that the ‘iPod moment has arrived for newspapers‘. What he’s referring to is that point in time when a technological development fundamentally changes a traditional business model, usually at the expense of those who have profited from it over the years.
For music that moment was the popularity of the iPod, and the rise in downloading that went with it; we can still see the effects of that moment in things like Radiohead’s decision to allow fans to set the price they pay for their new album, which we discussed last week. Jarvis feels that the same thing may now have happened for newspapers (even if we haven’t realised it yet) and that the catalyst is the same - the iPod, or to ...