My book Music in the Digital Age is a work in progress. It’s already available, but it’s being published as I write it over the course of this year. As of today, it’s being published in multiple languages as well.

I’m trying to get it translated into as many languages as possible, and I have a bunch of translators around the world working on different versions of it as we speak. Some of them were ready to go live today with the first 4-6 chapters, and as a result you can get a German, Estonian or Greek language version of my book, which will automatically update as more material is added.

While I have about 15 languages already in progress, I’m looking for some more translators. Ideally, I’d like this book to be available in as many languages as possible. You don’t necessarily have to be a professional translator – just someone who is deeply interested in the material, whose first language is the one that it will be translated into, and someone with a bit of confidence that they can pull it off successfully.

I’m splitting the proceeds from sales of each translated version 50/50 with the person who did that translation. That might be very little – or it might be a lot. I’m hoping for the latter, for obvious reasons.

Here’s some blurb about the book…

ENGLISH:

Music is both culture and commerce. Those two things are inextricably linked. In different periods of history, music culture and music commerce are profoundly different.

In the age of print, the main way in which music was produced, distributed and consumed was on paper. Music was dots on a page. The electric age, with its introduction of recordings and broadcasting, radically transformed the ways in which music made meaning for people, and consequently the ways in which it made money.

And just as the electric age was profoundly disruptive to the musicians, businesses and fans of music when it first came along, so too is the digital age.

The way to navigate such changes is to understand them. In order to adapt to the new environment and thrive it’s important to make informed, deliberate and progressive responses that are appropriate to the opportunities new context – rather than fearful, reactive and conservative ones that view the new environment simply as a threat and as chaos.

This book aims to provide a guide to those changes – not to tell you what you should do – but so that you can make intelligent, rational and strategic choices about your own music business, or so that you can come to understand the changes in the ways in which music is used and understood as part of our new and increasingly dominant music culture.

GERMAN:

Musik ist beides, Kultur und Kommerz. Diese zwei Dinge sind untrennbar miteinander verbunden. In verschiedenen Abschnitten der Geschichte sind Musikkultur und Musikkommerz grundlegend verschieden.

Im Zeitalter der Druckschrift war die vorwiegende Art, Musik zu produzieren, zu vertreiben und zu konsumieren auf Papier. Musik waren Punkte auf einer Seite. Das elektrische Zeitalter, mit seiner Einführung von Aufnahmen und Ausstrahlungen, hat die Art, wie Musik für Menschen Bedeutung schafft, radikal verwandelt, und darauffolgend auch die Wege, wie damit Geld zu verdienen war.

Und genau wie das elektrische Zeitalter in seinen Anfängen zutiefst zerreißend war für Musiker, Unternehmen und Fans von Musik, ist es nun auch das Digitale Zeitalter.

Der Weg, durch solche Änderungen hindurchzusteuern, ist, sie zu verstehen. Um sich an die neue Umwelt anzupassen und darin zu gedeihen, ist es wichtig, gut informierte, bewusste und fortschrittliche Reaktionen an den Tag zu legen, die dem Kontext der neuen Möglichkeiten angemessen sind – vielmehr als von Angst geprägte, reaktive und konservative Reaktionen, die die neue Umwelt einfach als eine Bedrohung und als Chaos ansehen.

Dieses Buch zielt darauf ab, einen Leitfaden für diese Änderungen anzubieten – nicht um dir zu sagen, was du tun solltest – aber damit du intelligente, rationale und strategische Entscheidungen treffen kannst bezüglich deines Musikgeschäfts, oder damit du lernen kannst, die Änderungen zu verstehen, wie Musik benutzt und als Teil unserer neuen und immer dominanter werdenden Musikkultur verstanden wird.

ESTONIAN:

Muusika on nii kultuur kui ka äri. Need kaks asja on lahutamatult seotud. Ajaloo eri perioodide jooksul on muusika kui kultuur ja muusika kui äri läbi teinud suured muutused. Näiteks trükikunsti ajastul toodeti, levitati ja tarbiti muusikat peamiselt paberil. Muusika oli vaid punktirida noodilehel. Elektroonikaajastul aga, mil hakkasid levima lindistamine ja ringhääling, muutus tundmatuseni inimeste arusaam muusikast ja koos sellega ka võimalused, kuidas muusikaga raha teha. Ja täpselt nagu elektroonikaajastu tulek tekitas segadust muusikute, muusikaettevõttete ja fännide seas, on see juhtunud ka digitaalajastul.

Niisuguste muutustega toimetulekuks tuleb neid mõista. Uue keskkonnaga kohanemiseks ja selles hästi hakkama saamiseks on tähtis reageerida muutustele teadlikult, kaalutletult ja ettenägelikult – viisil, mis sobitub uue kontekstiga. Kindlasti ei tohiks karta, üle reageerida ja jääda kinni konservatiivsetesse meetoditesse ning näha uues keskkonnas ainult ohtu ja kaost.

Selle raamatu eesmärk on aidata sul nendes muutustes orienteeruda – mitte öelda sulle, mida sa peaksid tegema, vaid juhendada sind nii, et sa jõuaksid oma muusikaäris ise nutikate, ratsionaalsete ja strateegiliste valikuteni, või nii, et sa hakkaksid muutustest aru saama niisugusel viisil, kuidas kasutatakse ja mõistetakse muusikat osana uuest ja üha domineerivamast muusikakultuurist.

GREEK:

Η μουσική είναι και κουλτούρα και εμπόριο μαζί. Αυτά τα δύο είναι άρρηκτα συνδεδεμένα μεταξύ τους. Στις διάφορες ιστορικές περιόδους, η κουλτούρα και το εμπόριο της μουσικής παρουσιάζουν βαθιές διαφορές μεταξύ τους. Στην εποχή της τυπογραφίας, το κύριο μέσο με το οποίο γινόταν η μουσική παραγωγή, διανομή και κατανάλωση, ήταν το χαρτί. Η μουσική ήταν κουκκίδες σε σελίδα. Η ηλεκτρονική εποχή, με την εισαγωγή της ηχογράφησης και της μετάδοσης, άλλαξε ριζικά τον τρόπο για το τι σήμαινε η μουσική στους ανθρώπους, και επακόλουθα τον τρόπο που έβγαινε το κέρδος. Όση αναστάτωση προξένησε στους μουσικούς, στις επιχειρήσεις και τους ακροατές η εμφάνιση της ηλεκτρονικής εποχής, άλλη τόση έχει φέρει και η ψηφιακή εποχή.

Ο τρόπος για να πορευτείς σε αυτές τις αλλαγές, είναι να τις κατανοήσεις. Για να προσαρμοστεί κανείς στο νέο περιβάλλον και να ευημερήσει, είναι σημαντικό να κάνει ενημερωμένες, συνειδητές και προοδευτικές επιλογές, αντίστοιχης δυναμικής του νέου πλαισίου δυνατοτήτων που δημιουργείται – όχι φοβισμένες, σπασμωδικές και συντηρητικές, που αντιμετωπίζουν το νέο περιβάλλον ως χάος και απειλή.

Στόχος αυτού του βιβλίου είναι να γίνει ο οδηγός σου διαμέσου αυτών των αλλαγών – και όχι να σου πει τι θα κάνεις – ώστε να κάνεις έξυπνες, ορθολογικές και στρατηγικές επιλογές για τη δική σου μουσική επιχείρηση, είτε για να κατανοήσεις την αλλαγή στον τρόπο που χρησιμοποιείται και εκλαμβάνεται η μουσική ως μέρος της νέας και αυξανόμενα επικρατούσας μουσικής κουλτούρας.

As it happens, I have other books in other languages too…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been encouraging Jake to update his website. He’s been so busy in India that he hasn’t really had time to blog, but he has his own domain (jakedubber.com) and web space, so we had a chat about what would be a useful thing to put there.

What he’s ended up with is ideal (have a look) – but in particular, I think it’s a really good model for my students to consider following. It’s more informal than a CV, but acts as a really good calling card and easily-updated professional link to send people.

A photo, a short bio, some links to where you can be found online (for Jake that’s Twitter, Soundcloud, Bandcamp and Flickr – rather than Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube and so on – but you should amend as appropriate) and some direct links to some work that you’ve done. Simple.

His one uses a template called Coming Soon by Templatic – a simple, one-page, easy to edit basis for this kind of thing, but there are others you can consider.

It just struck me as something that a lot of my students should be thinking about if they’re planning to shop themselves around for internships, job placements and so on.

As you’ll no doubt already know, it’s traditional to give generous gifts to New Zealanders on Waitangi Day*.

New Zealander Taika Waititi is trying to get his film BOY screened in the United States. February 6th is Waitangi Day. I’ve just put those two things together and made a connection.

BOY is a fantastic film, and it would be great to know that it was getting the international recognition it deserved. For a small (or large) donation, you can help make that happen. There are some great incentives as well. Here’s a link to the Kickstarter project.

And happy Waitangi Day.

*It’s not traditional to give gifts to anyone on Waitangi Day, but let’s pretend.

That’s a photo I just took of the Moon – and beneath it, Jupiter.

Jupiter! I can see Jupiter with my eyes?! That’s incredible. Apparently our orbits are close at the moment. Even so, if we are at the closest it’s possible for the Earth and Jupiter to be to each other, it’s still 630 MILLION KILOMETERS AWAY!!

I think that’s amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jupiter before – but it’s so bright. I could even see it without my glasses. So much for shortsighted.

Stephen Helebert and Stanley Hems from Johnstans Butchers, Kings Heath

I popped into my local butcher shop this morning to pick up some lovely dry-cured bacon, and they were celebrating their big win: a Gold award for ‘Best Customer Service’ and Silver for ‘Best Window Display’ in the Kings Heath Business Association awards.

Stanley Hems (right) is also the Chairman of the Kings Heath Business Association (not to mention Life Honorary President of the Birmingham and District Butchers Association), but was of course not involved in the awarding committee.

He tells me he’s been in business here in Kings Heath for 54 years. I believe this is the first time these awards have taken place, and they were voted by customers who filled in forms and handed them into the participating shops.

I must admit, I picked them for Best Customer Service. They’re certainly the most enthusiastic retailers in the High Street, and Stanley’s a great salesman. Always in for the upsell. Choose a type of meat, and he’ll grab the largest cut for you. Ask for a pack of bacon, and he’ll say “two, was it?”

But you don’t mind because they like a bit of banter and they’re friendlier than most retailers. Friendlier than most people, actually. Exactly why I go there, rather than the ASDA across the road. Much better meat too. And he was very good at handing out that voting form and encouraging people to participate.

So… congratulations guys. I don’t know who the winners were in the other categories, but yours was well-deserved. It’s nice to be reminded that we live in a village, and that there’s more going on around here than the big supermarket chains.

As you may have worked out by now, I’ve been working on a book that’s available for purchase as it’s being written.

I’ve already had some lovely feedback about Music in the Digital Age (and some people have already pre-ordered the audiobook). So I started to think about whether there was anything else that would make it a distinctively “digital age” product.

And then it occurred to me. It’s not just the Digital Age – it’s also the Global Age.

I’ve approached some friends who work in a range of connected fields (independent music, education, media and so on) who have as their first language something other than English. Some of them have kindly agreed to translate the book so that I can release other versions in the same way that I’m releasing the English one:

1) as a work in progress;
2) with regular updates;
3) as a pay-what-you-want download.

And so then I got ambitious, and wondered how many languages it could simultaneously be written in?

I’m aiming for 25. Twenty-six if you also count English, which is the version I’m doing. I might even be tempted to go for thirty.

Writing in many languages at once

The deal I’ve struck with my translators is that they get 50% of all sales of the ebook in their language. That seems fair, I think.

Brilliantly, all of the people who have already agreed to translate did so before I told them I planned to give them half of what we sold by doing that. They’re doing it because they’re interested in the content and believe in the project, which is brilliant. The idea that I might be able to give them a little something for their trouble is fantastic.

So far, these are the languages that the book is definitely being translated into – and will start to be available in February:

Dutch
Estonian
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Japanese
Portuguese
French
Spanish
Finnish
Doric
Swedish

And these are the languages that I’m aiming to get or are still not 100% confirmed:

Arabic
Bengali
Chinese (Mandarin)
Danish
Hindi
Indonesian
Italian
Korean
Maori
Norwegian
Russian
Thai
Urdu
Welsh

…and I’d love to get as many others as I can.

Can you help?

I have some good leads and I’ve made some offers – but there are definitely some gaps in there – so if you think you might be ideal for this sort of project and would be willing to work on this basis, then I’d love to hear from you.

And if you think of some other languages that my book should be available in – and you can help make that happen – I’d love to hear about that as well.

I’m really excited about this project, and about the idea of managing a team of people all simultaneously writing the same book – my words, their language… all being released and updated as a work in progress via Leanpub.

Should be lots of fun.

And no, you’re right. I don’t know what I’m getting myself into.

People are often surprised that I have an empty email inbox most of the time. Actually, it’s really not difficult.

Of course, until I found out about the secret of having an empty inbox, I was completely overwhelmed all the time, and always had thousands of messages in various states of read, unread, filed or unfiled. There’s a bunch of systems you can use – but I’ve taken what I think are probably the simplest and most repeatable steps of all the versions I’ve read.

Once you realise that there are only three types of email, it all suddenly becomes very simple. You don’t need a book to tell you how to do it, a special email ‘diet’ or a seminar that costs hundreds.

For this to work, you will need a single archive folder (Gmail has this automatically) – not a series of folders for lots of projects. You will need some sort of To-Do list (for me it’s Things). You will need a calendar or diary (I use iCal on the Mac). And that’s it.

Of course, it can take a while to claw your way to zero the first time out, but once you’re there, it’s easy to stay there – as long as you remember that simple fact: there are only three types of email. Every piece of email is one of those types. Process it accordingly, and that part of your system will always be up to date.

1) Things I have to DO

A lot of the email I get requires some sort of action on my part. In fact, most of my work arrives by email. It might be a request to attend a meeting, reply to somebody about something, pick up something from somewhere, or write a book.

Here’s where I have to make a decision: Do I do it now? Or do I do it later?

David Allen (author of Getting Things Done) suggests a two-minute rule. That seems about right. If it will take you less than two minutes to do the thing, do it now. Then you can archive the email and it’s out of your inbox.

Otherwise, if it’s something to do that will take longer than two minutes, put it on your ‘to do’ list – and then archive the email. You’ll deal with it as appropriate, and the email will always be findable again if you want to refer to it. But it’s out of your inbox, and not cluttering up the space that should only ever be a temporary home for stuff you haven’t dealt with yet.

2) Things I have to KNOW

If it’s something you have to know, then read it, make a note of the important points if you have to – and then archive the email… or – in most cases, you can probably delete it. If the point of the email was just to make you aware of something, then it’s done its job, and you can get rid of it.

If it’s too long to read in two minutes, put ‘Read email about X’ into your to-do list, then archive it. You’ll get to it when you get to it. It doesn’t have to clutter up your inbox or be constantly in your face demanding your attention.

If it’s something you need to file away, like a password for a website or a confirmation of something, then it’s fine in the archive. You’ll be able to find it just by typing in a key word or phrase at a later date if you need it again – but it doesn’t need to go in a specific folder and it certainly doesn’t need to stay in your inbox. Just the big, searchable archive will be fine.

3) Trash

ALL other kinds of email are trash and you can delete them. This is true for most email. I go through my email inbox with my finger on the delete key and I press it a lot. If it’s stuff I never want to see again, it gets the big ‘thumbs down’ button, which marks it as spam.

If it’s not something you need (or want) to do, or something that you need (or want) to know, then it is, by definition, trash. Just delete it.

It takes me, on average, about 3 seconds per email to decide which of the three types it is. And then I deal with it accordingly.

Inboxes are, to me, temporary places that are only for stuff that I haven’t made decisions about yet. Nothing is in there from one day to the next. Any more than ten emails in there at any one time feels a bit excessive. I tend to go through it several times a day, but I quite often like to just reduce it to once a day.

Those steps in brief:

If it’s something you have to DO, then either do it or put it on your To-Do list, and archive the email.

If it’s something you have to KNOW, then read it, and archive the email.

If it’s TRASH, just delete it.

Simple as that.

A few more quick tips:

1) Sending email encourages others to send you email. If you want less email, send less email.

2) People appreciate short responses that are to the point. Three sentences is probably enough in almost every situation.

3) Set up filters. There are common phrases and common types of email that you could do without ever seeing again. Spam filtering is one thing, but auto-deleting any email that meets certain criteria that you notice popping up is a good idea too. For me, ‘Apologies for cross-posting’ will automatically get an email trashed. I won’t even see it. If it’s a really relevant call for academic papers, somebody will email me directly.

Practice makes perfect

I’ve been doing this for several years now, I have about 300 filters set up in Gmail – and my threshold for marking something as ‘spam’ is incredibly low. There is very seldom a false positive on my Spam – to the point where it’s not actually even worth checking.

But all this makes my email inbox incredibly useful and efficient, and every message that deserves a response always gets one straight away.

Stick with it. It’ll take a little while for it to become habit.

You need to trust (and use!) your To-Do list and your calendar – and trust that the search function will easily find that email in your Archive again if you ever need it. Getting it out of your inbox is the key to dealing with things appropriately, and giving them the attention they deserve when they deserve it.

It’s about turning a source of overwhelm and stress into a useful tool for communication. Hope you find that helpful.

If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a week or two, you’ll know that I’m always on the lookout for ways of getting things done – specifically, software that helps me achieve more with less effort – or at least in a way that makes it feel like less effort.

I like doing lots of interesting things and I like being very organised, but at the same time I’m an extraordinarily lazy and disorganised person by nature – and I don’t like to be stressed or overwhelmed with too many tasks.

So the things that I do manage to accomplish come as a result of cheats and shortcuts, basically. Tricks that I play on myself and the outside world that make it feel like I’m getting ahead with less input on my part. That the tools are doing the work for me.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t – but I enjoy trying new things out. It’s a bit of a hobby. And I’ve started using a bunch of new ones recently… so I thought others who share my interest in such things (and I know of at least two) might be interested to check out the current toolkit.

What’s on the Mac?

1) Mendeley Desktop manages my PDF library of academic journal articles – making them easy to find and easy to reference. It also suggests and directs me to others that I might find useful – sort of like a Last.fm of knowledge. Very helpful. I use this in conjunction with EndNote. It hasn’t completely nailed the Cite-While-You-Write thing – but it’s vastly superior to EndNote in every other respect.

2) Scrivener is what I’m using to do most of my writing in. Particularly good for long pieces – it lets you break things down into manageable chunks, move them around and structure in pieces.

3) Dragon Dictate is really useful for getting lots of words down. I talk and the words appear on the screen. I don’t use it all the time, but I use it for certain projects. In particular, the Music in the Digital Age book, which is aimed at a general readership in a conversational tone. I find that it’s easier to talk than to type in that mode – and besides, I speak at around 4-5 times the speed I type.

4) Whitenoise makes a consistent sound that blocks out all distractions. Essentially, it’s a focus aid. It comes with a lot of different sounds that you can mix together and place in different parts of the stereo spectrum so that you’re both aurally blocked out from the outside world, and cocooned in comforting noises. I’m currently writing with a mix of ‘brown noise’ (white noise with harsh frequencies removed), a ticking grandfather clock, a cat’s purr, a heartbeat and a babbling brook. You’d be surprised how well your brain zeroes in on the task at hand when surrounded by consistent (rather than intermittent) sounds.

5) iReadFast does what it sounds like. You copy and paste text into it, tell it how many words per minute you’d like to read it at, and away it goes. It shows you just a few words at a time, but relentlessly and at speed. I’ve been working on reading faster for several years now, and depending on the type of text, the system works very well. Just push yourself a little bit faster each time, and you’ll be surprised how your brain keeps up. 300 words per minute is comfortable, but still quite a bit faster than off the printed page. 800 words per minute is a blur – but if you’re just skimming for clues, it can be very handy. Yes I also read more slowly sometimes, but no, it doesn’t help me retain more.

6) MarsEdit is what I use for writing blog posts. In fact, everything you see of mine on the web (including this) was created in MarsEdit. Much simpler (and more powerful) than using the editing window in WordPress.

7) Bloodrop is an easy way to share files with people in your public Dropbox folder. Drag and drop to the Bloodrop icon, and it copies the file to your public Dropbox folder, and puts the link in your clipboard so you can paste it into an email (or whatever). Only cuts out a couple of steps – but it just makes the general workflow seem more effortless.

8) Notational Velocity on the Mac (coupled with PlainText on the iPhone/iPad) is what I use to make and sync plain text notes (again, via Dropbox). Anything I write on one is automatically and instantly on the others – so I can just pick up where I left off at any point – and I always have a note-taking device to hand.

9) 1Password is an absolute godsend. Hyper-secure web passwords that I don’t have to remember. I have hundreds of logins and passwords on different sites all over the internet. They all look something like this: fM*q1HBh~cm`ye+]pk1N – and yet all I have to do is type a single shortcut key on my laptop, and it will put the appropriate username and password in the appropriate place on whatever site I happen to be visiting. Of course, the software on my laptop that keeps these passwords is triple secure as well. Much safer than using one password for my email, bank, Amazon, Paypal, web hosting and so on – and far better than writing them all in a notebook and sticking them in a drawer.

10) Things is how it all works together. This is the master-list. Every day, I’m ticking off to-do items, reviewing projects, making sure that there are no loose ends. I have this on my phone, on my iPad and on my laptop – and I’m convinced it’s the only reason I get anything done at all. Coupled with my daily list (a series of every day tasks that I keep on my phone that get ticked off each day), this project management system pretty much runs my life for me so I don’t have to think. All of this stuff happens on autopilot, every single task getting only as much attention as it deserves, I don’t think about it until it needs doing, and when it’s done, it’s ticked off and I don’t have to think about it again.

This – and the zero inbox strategy (a really simple approach that I’ll share soon) – is the key to me not being completely overwhelmed with the three books that I’m writing, the MA course that I’m teaching, the marking that I’m doing, the research projects and all the other fun bits and pieces that I like doing (including blogging about stuff like this that most people won’t really find of much interest).

Sometimes these systems makes me feel all very clever and in control – but if I’m honest, mostly I’m just the servo-mechanism that keeps them all ticking over and running. And actually, I’m okay with that. They’re far more successful at running my life than I ever was.

Out the window of my home office, across the road, there’s been a lot of squirrel activity lately. My eye is drawn to the comings and goings of the squirrels because of their rapid movement in the leafless trees – and because even though I’ve lived in the UK for over seven years, squirrels are still exotic animals to me.

I was watching a pair of them run backwards and forwards the other day, when I realised that the big tree straight ahead of me must be where they live. And then I saw the nest – or the ‘drey’ as Wikipedia tells me it’s called. It’s a clump of leaves and twigs halfway up the trunk of the tree – about the size of a football… and it has a little hole that the squirrels come in and out of.

At dusk, that’s where they disappear to. Not that I’d given it any thought, nor come up with an alternative hypothesis about where they go, but I was surprised to learn that they build these dreys and live in them. Makes sense though, I suppose.

If you look hard you’ll see the clump of leaves about halfway up the trunk. That’s it there.

Of course, now I’m seeing them everywhere. Hopefully, I’ll get to see baby squirrels in the Spring. I’ll wait and watch patiently – a bit like David Attenborough.

Nearly two weeks ago, I published a book I haven’t finished writing. In fact, I’m probably only about 15% of the way through it, if I’m honest. But I’ve been experimenting with a website called Leanpub that lets you do that, and people can get the book right up front, and then receive updates as you write them.

What’s interesting – apart from the feedback which has been broadly encouraging and positive – is that people actually seem to be paying for it, even though they don’t have to.

I’ve just posted the first major update to Music in the Digital Age and people should be getting emails about now that tells them how to get the new version. It’ll be interesting to see what people think of that bit of the process, and whether that was enough of an update.

I think I’ll push out an update every few weeks, or whenever there’s a substantial new section all ready to go – whichever comes first. I’ve been writing on average about 800-1,000 words a day on it since the year began. I hope to be able to keep that up for a while if I can.

It’s all planned out in skeleton form, of course – and it looks like it’s going to be quite a substantial bit of work when it’s done. Given that the section that updates the original 20 Things e-book I wrote 5 years ago promises to be longer and more in-depth than that whole book was – and it’s just a scene-setter for this one, the whole thing could be a bit of a doorstop.

Well, it would be if it had any mass at all. It’s an e-book.

Today I hit a bit of a milestone with it. 200 copies have been downloaded. Hardly bestseller list material – but pleasingly substantial nevertheless. What’s more, about a third of those copies have actually been paid for (you can pay whatever you like – from zero dollars to the entire contents of your bank account, though $5 is the suggested price).

Most who did pay money have paid $5, some $1, a few $10, and one has paid quite a bit more. I don’t get the email addresses or names of people who have it, so I have to just be generally appreciative, rather than specifically and personally – but it is very gratifying.

I’m doing a lot of writing these days, so I’ve added a ‘my books‘ page to this site. Go have a look. It’s all interesting stuff (well, I find it interesting anyway).

If Music in the Digital Age sounds like your sort of thing – feel free to download it and start reading. Don’t let the fact that I haven’t finished it yet stop you.