How to Make Money from Self Publishing.

Newspaper:

As yet there are no websites where you can publish your newspaper and earn money per view or advertising.

Magazine:

Issuu.com - revenue would come from word of mouth gaining popularity, meaning that companies will pay to advertise in your space.

Books:

Lulu.com - Self publishing, cost quite high but revenue more than if with classic publishing house. Massive database.

Amazon.com/Createspace - Publishing on amazon.

Radio:

Live365.com, revenue made per hit through advertising.

Film/TV:

* Filmbaby, can be accessed through iTunes, massive in USA. Puts indie film onto DVD if you upload content and artwork, sells as unit. Or you can publish through download. Linked to create space.

Music:

Tunecore, Itunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, EMusic, CDBaby, Zune.

Channel 4 for Youtube

Channel four is the first TV channel in the world to sign up to put all its programs on Youtube, still keeping its traditional TV channels in the UK.

http://www.youtube.com/channel4

A few weeks later, Channel five signed up for this.

Mobility

Mobility
The desire to watch TV outside of your living room. Apps on phones now have the ability to broadcast.

The Byron Report

The Byron Report
Internet safety for children, in schools.

Children as young as five cn be tought about internet safety.
The report aims three things:
- For children not to share information.
- For cihldren to understand the dangers.
- For children to report any dangerous material that they see.

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/byronreview/

iTunes Case Study

The history of iTunes:
2001 - version 1 was released. Simple design based on the Soundjam code.
version 1.1.1 - Mac version is released
version 2.0 Oct 2001, Original iPod is now supported, CD burning is improved and equaliser/cross fader.
Version 3.0
Version 4.0 April 2003, Music store support is added. DVD burning
Version 4.1 Oct 2001, Voice notes and on-the-go playlists are added. The first windows version is released.
Version 4.7 iPod photo support added. October 2004. Multimedia makes its way through Itunes.
Version 4.8 May 2005, Video support added. Support for international music stores. Some security improvements also made. iTunes is now fully globally compatable.
Version 4.9 is released. June 2005. Podcat functionality is added.
Version 6.0 - Video transfer functionality is added to support the 5th generation iPod classic.
Version 7.0 - New look
Version 7.1 - March 2007. Support for Apple TV.
Version 7.3 - June 2007 - iPhone activation and syncing support is introduced.
Version 7.6 - January 2008 - Movie rentals via the iTunes store is added.
Version 8.0 - The new Genius content-suggestion feature is added along with the new grid view and tv shows in HD. (Links to WEB 3.0 participatory culture, information is taken from YOUR playlist and redirected to sell you things). This is one of the first examples of Mac using web 3.0.

Accesability/Platform(s)
Multimedia support such as photos and videos with sharing support to the iPod and iPhone, MP3player, etc. The iTunes store itself is mainly available from your main computer, but there are also ways to access the store and purchase items from modern phones with web connections. It does not require internet access to listen to the sounds over and over, on multiple devices as they are functionable for transfering the songs.















Rivals
Spotify - supplies music in a similar way to itunes, in a similar looking player. The player however uses constant internet streaming access, which does not benefit the user to transfer music via other applications and equipment, or transport it.


Web based players also offer similar services, free however these also require an internet connection to permanently use, unless items are purchased for MP3. Example: Last.fm, We-7.

Media variety, Availability, Convergence:












Photos
Songs (MP3)
Videos


All purchasable from the itunes library and with support to transfer them to other hardware such as Ipod, iPhone, MP3, your computer, etc.

Spotify

Spotify
Founded by Daniel Ek.

Using a very fragmented market, in the modern age, this idea combines peer to peer sharing (which is usually done illegally) with good publicity and money for the bands.
All four main record labels have signed up to it.
The younger demographic society tend to get music for free. The use of the ads monotise this and subscriptions keep it improving.

Rather than taking artists music illegally, Spotify gives the users an oppertunity to engage in the artists by choice, to help make the money back. Cultural reasons may mean that people prefer to just buy their tracks/albums (for instance, we have TV's but we can watch it online if we wanted to).

History of iTunes

The history of iTunes
2001 - version 1 was released. Simple design based on the Soundjam code.
version 1.1.1 - Mac version is released
version 2.0 Oct 2001, Original iPod is now supported, CD burning is improved and equaliser/cross fader.
Version 3.0
Version 4.0 April 2003, Music store support is added. DVD burning
Version 4.1 Oct 2001, Voice notes and on-the-go playlists are added. The first windows version is released.
Version 4.7 iPod photo support added. October 2004. Multimedia makes its way through Itunes.
Version 4.8 May 2005, Video support added. Support for international music stores. Some security improvements also made. iTunes is now fully globally compatable.
Version 4.9 is released. June 2005. Podcat functionality is added.
Version 6.0 - Video transfer functionality is added to support the 5th generation iPod classic.
Version 7.0 - New look
Version 7.1 - March 2007. Support for Apple TV.
Version 7.3 - June 2007 - iPhone activation and syncing support is introduced.
Version 7.6 - January 2008 - Movie rentals via the iTunes store is added.
Version 8.0 - The new Genius content-suggestion feature is added along with the new grid view and tv shows in HD. (Links to WEB 3.0 participatory culture, information is taken from YOUR playlist and redirected to sell you things). This is one of the first examples of Mac using web 3.0.