Searchblog's Battelle on Google announcements

By at 7:00 am Saturday, Jan 7

Author and Boing Boing "band manager" John Battelle has a few thoughts on the search giant's CES announcements:
The ability to sell video is great, but not news. We've known that was coming. What is really interesting is the pricing leverage: Google is splitting revenues 70/30 - that's 70 to the content producer. Also very important is that the producers of content are the ones who set the price - again, totally different from traditional models. Thirdly, Google is doing its own DRM. That's very interesting, and probably best left as the subject of another post. Producers can decide to not use DRM, as Charlie Rose did, Feiken told me.
Link. Google Pack is up now, too.

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