[Dixielandjazz] Is the CD dead?

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Yep ,  It is Dead, just about as Dead as the same Big Labels believe 
that Jazz is Dead.

Those Dinosaurs are so out of touch with reality that they can only 
react to the numbers they get spoon fed after the fact that have been 
over analyzed by their bean counters.   They will do what they have 
always done, use their deep deep pockets of cash to buy up every 
independent operation they can find or any new system that starts to 
make inroads into their profit marketplace.

To them it is always Business as usual, and Never Never Never do they 
ever do anything creative, simply an exercise in Buying out anything 
that looks like it is making a profit, or is about to make a huge 
profit.

They have been known to beat Dead Horses for several days thinking that 
surely they will get up and run again . :))

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins



-----Original Message-----
From: barbonestreet at earthlink.net
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 1:04 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Is the CD dead?

    The distribution of recorded music is changing rapidly according to 
EMI,
Sony & Warner.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone

EMI Music CEO says the CD is 'dead'

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- EMI Music Chairman and Chief Executive Alain
Levy Friday told an audience at the London Business School that the CD
is dead, saying music companies will no longer be able to sell CDs
without offering "value-added" material.

"The CD as it is right now is dead," Levy said, adding that 60% of
consumers put CDs into home computers in order to transfer material to
digital music players. But there remains a place for physical media, 
Levy
said.

"You're not going to offer your mother-in-law iTunes downloads for
Christmas," he said. "But we have to be much more innovative in the way
we sell physical content." Record companies will need to make CDs more
attractive to the consumer, he said.

"By the beginning of next year, none of our content will come without
any additional material," Levy said.

CD sales accounted for more than 70% of total music sales in the first
half of 2006, while digital music sales were around 11% of the total,
according to music industry trade body the International Federation of
the Phonographic Industry.

CD sales were worth $6.45 billion and digital sales $945 million, the
IFPI said.

Levy said EMI is continuing to hold talks with Google Inc., on an
advertising-revenue sharing partnership with the community video Web
site YouTube, which the Internet search giant acquired in October for
$1.6 billion in stock.

EMI's rivals, Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG), Sony BMG - a joint venture
between Sony Corp. (SNE) and Bertelsmann AG - and Universal Media have
all signed content deals with YouTube.

"The terms they were offering weren't acceptable," Levy said, adding
that EMI continues to be concerned about copyright issues.


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