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Piano Media tried this in central Europe and folded.

Reason as I understand it: downward spiral. Publishers of worthy content learn to make people pay for content, and then go off-platform once they have large enough audience to keep the whole profit.

Weaker publications stay in a bundle, but at that point not many people want to pay.

Is this a future of Spotify model as well? Taylor Swift or Adele are now powerful enough to try to break away.

(use Google translate) https://www.pianomedia.sk/122/system-piano-na-slovensku-spln...




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