Current Trend: Declining Price of Content

An associate noticed that there's a current trend of ["declining price of content"].

Charlie Rose of pbs fame is now selling his last nite interview and previous interviews for $.99 (ipod format)! Yes! ... 99 cents! ... Oxford University press (publisher of Griffith's AoW) are selling their inventory of books @ 65% discount.

Movie studios're changing their selling strategies. In the 80's and 90's, they would take a min. of two yrs to release a previous shown movie in tape format.

In the last two to three yrs, it took a TV production studio less than one yr to release last season of shows (w/ "some storyline and backstory" extras). Movie studios are also doing the same. These days, it takes movie studios a min of three months to release a movie in a DvD format.

Heard this one can purchase this previous wk showing of this season's Desperate Housewives and some of the ABC TV shows for $.99 (in ipod format).

Most newspapers're selling their news for less for a dime now. . . . While NYT's only selling their opinions and articles from their most valued columnists for $7.95/month or $50/yr.

Steven Soderbergh of Ocean11 and Ocean12 fame told the studios any movies he releases to the movie houses, will hit the DvD stores all in the same week.

Concurrently Yahoo, Google and so forth are giving away and/or selling popular content at low cost that content can have a min. price of a few dollars.

Q: @ this moment, what do you think will be the most "Tangible" item for the current global marketplace out there?

If so, f/ how long?

Generally, there're two type of info. contents. One can be described as milk. One can be described as wine. Milk is an item that's has a limited timeline. While wine is one that has a longer timeline. Where the older one gets, the better the taste is.

What type of content do the masses concentrate on? What type of content do the "pragmatic smart" usually focus on


Regards,


Cardinal009

Another trend is Amazon not stocking much items. They are acting as a middle man f/ other smaller companies from books to tea. (Ala eBay). Smaller companies are securing items (that is slightly out of popular favor) quite faster and selling it cheaper than Amazon. That's another topic f/ a later time. Another ["Innovator Dilemma"!]