Re: [ARSCLIST] CD versus Download was "All hail the analogue revolution..."

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right, again, niche players. Limited marketing budget, etc. Most of the world's back catalog of 
classical music is owned by Universal and BMG/Sony and EMI. I think if you took a census, they would 
own about 85-90% of total back catalog of recordings. The reasons why so much of it is out of print 
has been detailed ad nauseum by me and others.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] CD versus Download was "All hail the analogue revolution..."


> On 26/09/06, Tom Fine wrote:
>
> > Yes, the top-100 pop CD's will be the last out-riders to be pushed
> > into extinction, because it's a business model that works (500,000 to
> > 1 million units definitely still works as a manufactured/warehoused
> > product, at $15 per at Wal-Mart). What doesn't work is most material
> > below the top-100.
>
> It must work, or the classical labels wouldn't keep on pouring out new
> titles month after month.
>
> I guess they mostly press a couple of thousand copies.
>
> Regards
> --
> Don Cox
> doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx