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CDs sind tot, und Musikdownloads ebenso

27. Januar 2015 by Marcel Weiß Leave a Comment

CDs sind tot, schreibt der Atlantic und unterlegt die Aussage mit Zahlen:

That doesn’t seem like such a controversial statement. Maybe it should be. The music business sold 141 million CDs in the U.S. last year. That’s more than the combined number of tickets sold to the most popular movies in 2014 (Guardians) and 2013 (Iron Man 3). So „dead,“ in this familiar construction, isn’t the same as zero. It’s more like a commonly accepted short-cut for a formerly popular thing is now withering at a commercially meaningful rate.

And if CDs are truly dead, then digital music sales are lying in the adjacent grave. Both categories are down double-digits in the last year, with iTunes sales diving at least 13 percent.

Insgesamt keine überraschende Entwicklung, besonders nicht für langjährige neumusik.com-Leser.… Weiterlesen

CDs und DVDs bei Dieben so beliebt wie Toilettenartikel

16. Januar 2012 by Marcel Weiß Leave a Comment

Wenn selbst Diebe CDs und DVDs verschmähen, dann sollte langsam auch dem letzten klar werden, dass es sich um aussterbende Medien handelt.

The Economist:

“Years ago, you’d see a man in a pub selling CDs,” says Eric Phelps, a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. “Not any more.” Indeed, thefts of entertainment products like CDs and DVDs have collapsed in England and Wales, to the point that they are now taken in just 7% of all burglaries in which something is stolen (see chart). They are now targeted no more frequently than are toiletries and cigarettes.

(Via Techdirt)