Internet purchasing is killing music stores, not
illegal downloading. I haven't been inside a music
store in at least ten years - but I buy lots of CD's.
Another factor is large discounters getting into the CD retail business.
I think the bankruptcy of music stores will have no bearing on the music industry as a whole.
If you want to prove this wrong find a credible source that says CD sales are down. Here's a hint: in recent antitrust litigation against music companies for fixing CD prices you will also find data on their increased sales during the period of price fixing.
Enjoy,
Keith
--- Linda Gruber <linda[_at_]novelart.com> wrote:
> Dan Bernitt wrote:
>
> In response to what, Linda Gruber wrote:
> Hello Eric Having seen the effect of rampant copying
> and distribution on the
> music industry
>
> Is there a quantitative or definitive description of
> this effect? The only
> things I've seen claim that every single download of
> a song is the actual
> loss of a sale. That is so ludicrous. The opposite
> is almost always true.
> I'm pretty old, I've been in the computer business
> for a very long time, and
> I've seen this claim/fear many times before. Sport
> team owners were
> convinced that televising games would surely keep
> people from buying
> tickets, interactive computing would be the end of
> the Computer Center, the
> VCR would be the end of movies and television, etc.,
> etc. Sure, CD sales
> are down in the last couple of years. So is the
> whole danged economy!
> We're in a recession for heaven's sake.
>
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>
> Hello Dan,
>
> A week or two ago I heard a broadcast and read an
> article on the same day,
> but my memory is foggy. (I'm pretty old too.) I
> can't be very specific on
> the facts or even remember where I heard and read
> them now. In the
> broadcast, a major CD chain store was filing
> bankruptcy. Reportedly,
> internet music swapping was the main reason for
> their financial situation.
> The article I read didn't mention that bankruptcy.
> It may have been written
> earlier. The writer believes that the music industry
> as we know it is dying,
> and soon, there will be no more CD stores.
>
> A lot of people seem to think it's a good thing that
> the music moguls are
> being cut out of the equation, but I wonder how new
> artists can manage
> marketing and promotion without someone fronting the
> money. It takes a lot
> of expensive broadcast marketing to get a recording
> to go platinum. Maybe it
> would be different if I were a kid in high school
> with classmates talking up
> a particular new artist, but foggy, old fogey that I
> am, if I heard a song
> on the radio that I liked and wanted to buy, it's
> unlikely that I would
> remember it long enough to go looking for the
> artist's website. I need TV
> ads to get me interested.
>
> I really don't think the recession can be blamed.
> I've been through a number
> of recessions, but I've never seen record sales
> suffer like this. When I was
> a just out of high school there was a recession. It
> was the late sixties. I
> was making $50 per week, paying $50 a month for an
> apartment over a music
> store, and driving a Honda 50 scooter. I could
> barely make ends meet, but I
> still bought a few 45's for $.99 each. Young adults
> still love music, and
> they are generally much more affluent today, but I
> suspect they do a lot
> more free downloading than buying. (I get that info
> directly from many young
> adults who have expressed the opinion that if it's
> on the internet, it's up
> for grabs.)
>
> Linda Gruber
> Novel Art
> http://www.novelart.com
>
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