Laura Holson, NY Times article on Tommy Mottola's Sony Music states: "Sales of compact discs have fallen as much as 10 percent this year as CD-burning and Internet file-sharing proliferate."
I sent a letter to the editor:
Dear Editors:
Laura Holson's article states: "Sales of compact discs have fallen as much as 10 percent this year as CD-burning and Internet file-sharing proliferate."
Do the facts support this statement?
It seems to me that there other factors at play such as:
a) exploding DVD sales
b) high music cd-rom prices (raw CD-ROM media prices have dropped to almost 0, yet music cd prices have not changed)
c) the RIAA's war on it's customers
d) the music industry's failure to change (why can't I purchase music online and excercise my fair use rights to purchase it, space and time shift it to my Powerbook and an ipod)?
Dan Bricklin posted an interesting article based on Josh Bernoff's research for Forrester Research and other data:
http://www.bricklin.com/recordsales.htm
Forrester says that "Downloads save the Music Business"
http://www.forrester.com/ER/Research/Report/Summary/0,1338,14854,FF.html
I urge you to research the market a bit before making these type of assertions on the front page of your business section.
Best,
Jim Zellmer
7:36:08 PM 
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