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Out To Lunch: Words & Music

Words and music, this week on Out to Lunch with Peter Ricchiuti.
Alison Moon
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It's New Orleans
Words and music, this week on Out to Lunch with Peter Ricchiuti.

You might have noticed in some grocery stores or coffee shops that when you go to check out there are a handful of CDs for sale. That impulse purchase spot is one of the few places you can buy CDs these days, now that most of us buy or steal music online.

That might just seem like inevitable technological evolution to you. But what happens when the world changes and you own a record label?

Dan Storper is the founder of Putumayo World Music, a phenomenally successful specialty label that has sold over 30 million CDs.

Selling books is equally as challenging as selling records. Book stores have closed and publishers have struggled to find their feet selling eBooks.

Scott Campbell is a veteran publishing executive and founder of his own relatively new publishing house, River Road Press.

Dan Storper and Scott Campbell join Out to Lunch's Peter Ricchiuti for an insightful lunch conversation about how you make a living selling words and music in the 21st century.

Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! His insight and humor have twice made him the top professor at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.