krj
|
|
response 49 of 106:
| Oct 21 17:36:36 UTC 2001 |
re: resp:19 :: Today's New York Times has a large piece on the
difficulties facing the classical music CD business. The article
starts with Tower Records' decision in May to stop ordering from the
major independent classical distributors -- the article does say
that Tower and the distributors have recently come to an agreement.
But with Tower failing in its traditional role as the leading
retailer of serious classical music, and with the major labels abandoning
the field, the article is skeptical about the survival of the business
of manufacturing and distributing physical discs. One person quoted
in the article brings up the point that David Bratman and I had made
earlier: browsing doesn't work in the online CD stores like Amazon.com,
and most of the serious classical collectors seem to be dedicated browsers.
The article suggests that, like it or not, the classical music business
will rapidly be forced to pure digital distribution, and everybody
better get the bigger bandwidth needed to download larger works at
higher fidelity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/arts/music/21TOMM.html
|