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 -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]