Sony was the big elephant in the room when talking about digital music. Is it 3 or 4 years now since they cave in and started to distribute through iTunes as well ?
The same phenomenon is going on for ebooks, where it's still heavily balkanised but it's clear the eventually most of the stores will go down and ignoring the biggest players (Amazon I guess ?) won't make sense.
I think the bets are still off concerning DVD/BD distribution, as they are still used to balance the profits on TV series for instance. On this front it's funny to see a very small number of production companies tipping their toes in crowdfunding (and being pushed to use kickstarter for instance...) to see if it would work for them.
The same phenomenon is going on for ebooks, where it's still heavily balkanised but it's clear the eventually most of the stores will go down and ignoring the biggest players (Amazon I guess ?) won't make sense.
I think the bets are still off concerning DVD/BD distribution, as they are still used to balance the profits on TV series for instance. On this front it's funny to see a very small number of production companies tipping their toes in crowdfunding (and being pushed to use kickstarter for instance...) to see if it would work for them.