Twilight of the CD? Not if It Can Be Reinvented

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Saillante punten in onderstaand bericht:
- 650 miljoen CD's verkocht in VS in 2002, 9% minder dan 2001
- het dringt eindelijk door dat 'selling online' de enige uitweg is
- verwachting voor het uitwerken van het 'business model': nog 2 jaar
- Bon Jovi verkoopt speciale CD voor $7 en ziet 'marktaandeel' van
bestaand album toenemen van 15,9% tot 26,1%
- ook gewauwel teenagers die CD kopieen op school verkopen voor $1
- Companies are showing signs of cracking. Two industry veterans have
recently lost their jobs
- "Large companies tend to wait until they feel pain to act," said
Dan Hart, chief executive of Echo, a recently formed consortium of
retailers that hope to sell music online. "Now they feel pain."
-  "We are definitely in the middle of a transition. It was always a
packaged-goods business, but that is changing. We are slowly moving
forward."
- Anderson Merchandisers, one of the largest magazine and music
distributors in the United States, bought technology from Liquid
Audio, an online music pioneer that distributes 350,000 songs through
retailers, in the hope of exploiting the growth in digital music.
- Critics complain that there is a dearth of blockbuster acts these
days and that those with hits, like Britney Spears, often have short-
lived careers.
- There is an old expression that pioneers are the ones with arrows
in their backs. The one thing executives don't get paid for is
rocking the boat.


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/business/yourmoney/23MUSI.html
February 23, 2003
Twilight of the CD? Not if It Can Be Reinvented
By LAURA M. HOLSON
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