business model innovation design we're on a road to nowhere // on a quest to analyze and explore the design of business model innovations, i.e. 'hideous and hidden things' like organizational structures and capabilities, corporate strategies and all things related // on a yellow brick road with a girl, a lion and a straw-man wasting our time // …

Are Intel and Morgan Freeman’s Revelation Studios aiming to overthrow the old distribution model of the movie business? Offering movies online as soon as they hit theaters looks interesting … the movie release schedule (first theaters, then Pay-Per-View, then DVDs, then TV) is shrinking anyway.

ClickStar’s business model may turn out great, even if they are confronting one great competitor: shared experience in theaters:

“You cannot replicate the theater experience anywhere else,” […] “It’s a social experience, it’s not just the film. We don’t really see this as having a negative effect on (movie theaters). We see [ClickStar] as being yet another distribution outlet. “

read more e.g. at Wired or The Register … or even over at Boycott-RIAA.