Comments on: Big music stores squelch download plan

Mounting costs and smaller-than-hoped-for sales, even for iTunes, lead retailers to pull funding.

[LANjackal]

Lower CD Prices

The article is right: the death of the CD is nowhere in sight. Simply put, the CD is still almost the only way to get original-quality audio, and it provides artwork and that special intangible feeling of being connected to the music, something that music downloads cannot match. I myself get my music from many non-CD sources, but I still buy the CDs of the artists I love for the above reasons. I know many other persons who also do the same. All the brick-and-mortar stored need to do to compete is to lower CD prices into the sub-$10 range.

[LANjackal]

Lower CD Prices

The article is right: the death of the CD is nowhere in sight. Simply put, the CD is still almost the only way to get original-quality audio, and it provides artwork and that special intangible feeling of being connected to the music, something that music downloads cannot match. I myself get my music from many non-CD sources, but I still buy the CDs of the artists I love for the above reasons. I know many other persons who also do the same. All the brick-and-mortar stored need to do to compete is to lower CD prices into the sub-$10 range.

[stephenmeyer]

Apple's music sales "insignificant"? WHAT????

"Apple's music sales are insignificant..." ??? What???!!! Well, I wouldn't call 80 MILLION songs sold in a little over a year insificant Mr. Bernstein.

It's this kind of thinking that proves you (and others) have NO idea how fast everything has changed. Obviously, you haven't read about sales of this new device called the iPOd either. More important, any effort(s) to create a legitimate online retail presence are necessary NOW as downloading proliferates and will never stop. If you don't do it soon...REAL SOON...you
won't need to have music retail.

And this" "I don't see (the retailers) as being overly concerned at this point that they're missing out." Really??? Who the hell are you talking about??? More retail music stores closed in the last three years than ever before.


Some people "get it" and others don't. Mr. Bernstein and his cohorts do NOT get it at all. Another reason why a technology person (Steve
Jobs) beat the industry to the punch. He DOES get it.

[stephenmeyer]

Apple's music sales "insignificant"? WHAT????

"Apple's music sales are insignificant..." ??? What???!!! Well, I wouldn't call 80 MILLION songs sold in a little over a year insificant Mr. Bernstein.

It's this kind of thinking that proves you (and others) have NO idea how fast everything has changed. Obviously, you haven't read about sales of this new device called the iPOd either. More important, any effort(s) to create a legitimate online retail presence are necessary NOW as downloading proliferates and will never stop. If you don't do it soon...REAL SOON...you
won't need to have music retail.

And this" "I don't see (the retailers) as being overly concerned at this point that they're missing out." Really??? Who the hell are you talking about??? More retail music stores closed in the last three years than ever before.


Some people "get it" and others don't. Mr. Bernstein and his cohorts do NOT get it at all. Another reason why a technology person (Steve
Jobs) beat the industry to the punch. He DOES get it.