Skeptics of Radiohead’s pay as-you-wish experiment for their album In Rainbows take note: The band made more money before In Rainbows was physically released than they made in total on their previous album Hail To the Thief – and that’s despite the fact that more people downloaded the album for free than actually purchased it [rolling stone].

On the subject of free, check out Hugh McGuire’s Huffpo piece What Publishing Can Learn From Music.

Julia