Comments on: San Francisco Chronicle Says CDs Are Dead http://www.jazzodyssey.com/san-francisco-chronicle-says-cds-are-dead/ Syd Schwartz's Blog Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:32:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: isaac http://www.jazzodyssey.com/san-francisco-chronicle-says-cds-are-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-2141 isaac Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:40:10 +0000 http://www.gatesofdelerium.com/wordpress/?p=181#comment-2141 This is classic, myopic, Bay-Area rhetoric, and it never fails to annoy me. Many very smart friends of mine who are caught up in it revert to sputtering irrelevant aphorisms like "the future is now" when I point out that physical music sales still account for $9.5 billion a year in revenue, compared to digital music's measly $500MM. There's no doubt that the physical CD business has a serious long-term challenge on its hands, but to say it's dead now is just not getting the big picture. This is classic, myopic, Bay-Area rhetoric, and it never fails to annoy me. Many very smart friends of mine who are caught up in it revert to sputtering irrelevant aphorisms like “the future is now” when I point out that physical music sales still account for $9.5 billion a year in revenue, compared to digital music’s measly $500MM.

There’s no doubt that the physical CD business has a serious long-term challenge on its hands, but to say it’s dead now is just not getting the big picture.

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