Thanks Francisco,<div><br></div><div>I'll chime in briefly on that as well...<br><div><br></div><div>Yes, we are hard at work on the followup report, as that RFD shows. And while we've been able to collect some data, we have significant gaps in the country level data which we're working to fill in, if anyone has access to useful data. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Of particular interest are *consumer spending* trends (i.e., how much of the public's spending goes towards entertainment and how that's changed over time -- in the US it has grown 15% over the last decade, but we'd like to see if that's the same elsewhere). In the US we found it via the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and while every country that we're interested in has a national statistics agency, it's not clear they have this data, or make it easily accessible. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Separately, more data on the *larger* music industry (not just sale of recorded music) in the specific European countries mentioned below. We have some decent data on the UK and Italy, but others are lacking (*especially* data on live music). Finally, any data on the rise of ebooks and non-traditional publishing in those markets would be really helpful. In the global report, we saw that ebooks allowed the non-traditional market to grow from just about 35k non-traditional/self-published books in 2002 to 2.7 million such books in 2010 (while traditionally published books grew from 215k to 316k over that same period). It would be great, though if we could get more specific country-level breakdowns.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any help that anyone in the PPs in Europe can provide would be greatly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Francisco George <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:francisco.george@gmail.com" target="_blank">francisco.george@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Mike,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your comments and I want to publicly thank you for propagating the PP ideals, through TechDirt, the ideals and milestones of the Pirate Parties to the US audience <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=pirate+party" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=pirate+party</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>And I take the opportunity to also present your RFD to update your data for "The Sky Is Rising" report <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/skyisrising/" target="_blank">http://www.techdirt.com/skyisrising/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span><i>"Hi Francisco,</i></span><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Thanks. We're looking to explore what has happened to the entertainment industries in key markets in Europe, specifically, Spain, France, UK, Germany, Italy and Russia. The specific info we're looking for are:</i></div>
<div><i><br></i></div><div><i>* Revenue of entire industry</i></div><div><i>* Revenue for each music, video, books and video games (and that means not just things like "music sales" but overall market, including live, licensing, etc...).</i></div>
<div><i>* How those have changed over the past decade</i></div><div><i>* Amount of content produced by those industry (and how much it's changed over the past decade)</i></div><div><i>* Consumer spending on entertainment (and how it's changed over the past decade).</i></div>
<div><i><br></i></div><div><i>We recognize that not all of that data may be available, but as much as we can find would be useful. If you know of others who might be able to help in those other countries as well, that would be useful.</i></div>
<div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Also, it's important that the data be as credible as possible. We've been very careful with the original report, and there has been almost no attacks on the data because it's solid. We need the same for this follow up."</i></div>
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