Thursday, January 24, 2008

Music biz lacks plan to replace dying CD

That cost the record labels billions in lost sales. The question is where the record industry and its customers go from here. It s increasingly obvious that the CD is a dying medium. Artists and producers have to come up with a new scheme for creating and distributing music. And we as customers have to be willing to pay a fair price for it. In other words it s time to start over. So the industry s traditional unit of sales and artistic effort the CD album looks like a goner. The real problem for the music industry is that there s nothing to replace it yet. Sales of legitimate digital downloads are beginning to flatten too. But that won t work for lesser known acts. There s no question that musicians and record labels will have to re think the way they do business. That means earning their fans respect and money one tune at a time. This is a true back to the future movement. Many music historians credit The Beatles with changing the business landscape fo! r everyone with Sgt. That s gone now and it s not clear what will take its place. com entitled The Album is Dead . If the commitment is strong enough it s feasible that artists could sell subscriptions. He loved it It is the easiest fish tank to take care of. I plan on keeping one of my very old laptops connected to the TV just for this feature. Just remember you read it here.

Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.pl.himowitz24jan24,0,3263187.column


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