In 1999, Diamond Multimedia’s Rio became the first portable mp3 player to be commercially successful. Eight years later, the Kindle brought a similar level of mobility to books. Needless to say, the two game-changing devices met with different results and reactions. Rob Reid, founder of Listen.com (which became Rhapsody) and also a publishing industry vet, talked about the two situations during his “Rhapsody To Year Zero: Online Music Then & Now” panel on Saturday at SXSWi.
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