Re: [ARSCLIST] The "dumbing down" of Downloaded Recordings

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/01/08, Bob Olhsson wrote:
> -----Original Message----- From Tom Fine: "...MANY CD titles are being
> taken out of print, and not because a reissue is made with a better
> remaster of the same material. One of the first consultant-driven
> cutbacks a megaglomerate makes to
> keep its stock price from cratering is to make a an ever-higher cutoff
> point for number of units
> sold per time period in order for an item to stay in-print..."
> 
> This certainly affects decisions about new pressing runs. I'm told the
> real underlying problem is that the "megaglomerate" retail stores are
> returning everything that they can't turn over within six weeks. The
> one-two punch of Napster and Amazon have killed the classical market
> dead because a huge percentage of sales in the past came from folks
> who were browsing and stumbled across something interesting in the
> classical section of a store.
> 
> 
You can browse in Amazon, too.

Regards
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Don Cox
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