There's no 'compulsory' licensing in literature... And if there's an industry in worse shape than music, it's the publishing world. Amazon's Kindle is stillborn because it relies heavily on Amazon for content, and there are no easy paths to licensing writ...

So what’s up with music on the internet, anyway? Too much of nothing at all! Most find the ubiquitous soundtracks on Myspace pages to be a nuisance, and major labels are going out of their way to keep the good stuff off the web entirely. But this is ...