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Bob Lefsetz - Please Get A Blog!: "A friend of mine in the music business turned me on to Bob Lefsetz' email newsletter. It's a great read if you care about the goings on in the music business. Here are some gems from the recent newsletters: On Amazon's new music service: If rental were such a good deal, if the public found it so appealing,why is Blockbuster on the verge of disaster?  Why are people BUYING somany DVDs when they can rent them so cheaply?  America has an ownershipculture.  Sure, in the future there might be a migration to service, but not TODAY!  Not until a much younger set comes of age. Let's see how you sell this.  For fifteen bucks a month you can haveaccess to ALL the music.  Well, not the Beatles or Led Zeppelin.  Andnot every track on every album...  And, if you don't keep paying, youlose IT ALL!  Shit, sounds more like radio than conventional musicpurchasing. And what are the odds that independent company Amazon can create asystem that actually works, when its Seattle counterpart Microsoft hasbeen unable to do this?  I mean maybe if Google moved into the sphere Imight be impressed.  Then again, Google Video is a disaster, and ratherthan deliver a quality product without glitches, Google just labels allits efforts 'beta', so you'll forgive them.  That's what we n"