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Are you interested on the effects of technology on the music industry? Do you have deep knowledge or a strong opinion about where current technological trends are taking the music business? If so, I would love your feedback on two papers that I wrote early this year on the effects of technology on the distribution of recorded music.

The first paper addresses historical disruption and covers the period spanning from the advent of recorded music through the pre-2000 era of industry consolidation. The current draft is located here:

http://deanero.wordpress.com/paper-historical-disruption-in-the-music-business/

The second paper discusses the current period of digital disruption and makes an attempt to look into the future. It’s interesting to note how much more obvious the trend towards closed systems has become–even in the six months since the paper was written! The current draft is here:

http://dean.ero.com/digital-disruption-music-distribution-in-the-digital-age/

Reading these papers and letting me know what you think would be a huge help for me–I’m sure the versions as posted have holes, inaccuracies, and abuses of the language.

If you’re git savvy, working versions of both papers are available in a public repository on Github (under the MCDM folder):

http://github.com/deanh/Writing/tree/master/MCDM

You can just clone the repository, make changes and send me a pull request.

Thanks in advance for your time. Any feedback is appreciated!