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Hi Tom & friends, Is there any evidence pointing to that happening? I am still enjoying CDs obtained when CDs were first introduced in the early '80's with no sign of self-degrading in over 30 years. I'm trying to think of what other products we have that have that still work as well as they did when brand new. Talk about value... Jay Your search for sound & video ends here! Jay Sonin, General Manager Music Hunter Distributing Company 4880 North Citation Drive, Suite # 101 Delray Beach, Florida 33445-6552 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 561-450-7152 From: Stephen Thomson Moore [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 7:33 AM To: Wagstaff, D John; Edmonds, Amy; [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MLA-L] RE: the end of the CD and DVD (and the CD and DVD player)? Dear all, Another concern with the end of the CD and DVD seems to be that our immense collections of Cds will self-degrade and be nothing more than shiny discs in a few short years. What about that? Best, Tom Moore FIU From: <Wagstaff>, D John <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: "Wagstaff, D John" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:54 PM To: "Edmonds, Amy" <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [MLA-L] RE: the end of the CD and DVD (and the CD and DVD player)? I think maybe the issue is that, once we reach a tipping point with e-books, the publishers might decide to move to an I-Tunes account-type distribution model, i.e. a "one individual/one account, no libraries need apply thank you very much have a nice day but get lost". We're already seeing this with some textbooks, after all. Print surrogates will then become impossible to obtain, libraries are cut out of the equation, and first-sale doctrine is sacrificed to licensing agreements. I don't write this in a "the-publisher-is-the-enemy" spirit, they clearly are only trying to make money and keep their businesses afloat, and arguably if the roles were reversed we'd be doing the same. But I suspect that that's definitely the commercial motivation behind the push towards e-books. John John Wagstaff Head, Music & Performing Arts Library Interim Head, Literatures and Languages Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1114 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL61801 Tel. 217-244-4070 e-mail: [log in to unmask] From: Edmonds, Amy [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 4:40 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MLA-L] RE: the end of the CD and DVD (and the CD and DVD player)? The same thing that makes it easy to crank out e-books makes it easy to publish in paper! Why are they whining? I do read quite a bit on my kindle but for anything that I will be working with intellectually, I have to be able to put my sticky notes in it (shhh!) and flip through the pages at will for the bits that I will recognize visually but can't remember well enough to do a good search on a device. From: Wagstaff, D John [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:09 PM To: Stephen Thomson Moore; [log in to unmask] Subject: [MLA-L] RE: the end of the CD and DVD (and the CD and DVD player)? To answer this question I'd pose another, which is: For how many years have we been seeing magazines with the question "Is this the year of the e-book?" on their cover? (my answer: at least 15, and my answer is always "no"). In spite of publishers really, really wanting to push e-books, we're still a long way from having anything like a decent amount of e-books to offer in the performing arts. IMHO. John From: Stephen Thomson Moore [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:09 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MLA-L] the end of the CD and DVD (and the CD and DVD player)? Dear CW, Have you all seen any responsible prognostication on what the time frame might be for the end of CD as a commercial format for music, and of the DVD as a commercial format for video? Do you individually have any wise words in this regard? I already heard in 1995 that the CD would soon be history (not yet). Inquiringly, Tom Moore FIU