“The mass market is yielding to a million minimarkets. Hits will always be with us, but they have lost their monopoly. Blockbusters must now compete with an infinite number of niche offerings, which can be distributed just as easily. Justin Timberlake still makes albums, but today he has thousands of bands on MySpace as rivals. The hierarchy of attention has inverted – credibility now rises from below. MTV and Tower Records no longer decide who will win. You do.”

Sehr lesenswerter Text aus der aktuellen “Wired”-Ausgabe über das Ende von Hits und Blockbusters. (via Micro Persuasion)