Type 3 bundling by people who understand the new landscape, e.g. NIN and radiohead, put together an album, an opportunity to remix and collaborate, a live experience, limited-run collectibles — not for sale on iTunes.

“People want to buy the small things, loosely joined” and kids love to eat junk food that makes them obese. This is hardly “news” and irrelevant to the work of the curator. People don't know they want what they don't know exists. The TechDirt Saves Journalism event I attended included a short music-related presentation that claimed that unbundling, not piracy, was the value destroyer in the music industry.

How to you propose that curators get paid for their work, assuming they are adding real value? Who is a curator? Must artists curate themselves because there is no place for the digital curator to make a living? Those are hard questions.

There are 375233 members on members.nin.com . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows was a Type 3 bundling smash hit.

Apologies for the late comment, this was shared today by someone.

it turns out that “shoppers” – free publications primarily filled with local ads have been growing nicely, even through the “end of print.”

Moving forward it seems to me that the new printing technologies allowing ultra niche publications – primarily ink jet at close to newspaper press speeds, will lead to more publications that are edited to the standard of “interesting 2 me” where the me is a well defined tribe in a 3D physical space.