Record Label Thrives Selling CDRs

n3hat writes "'The major music companies may fret over falling revenue, but one label saw its business jump 33 percent last year -- thanks in part to the recordable compact discs that the industry says are hurting its sales. The label, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is using recordable CD's, or CD-R's, to ensure that each release in its extensive catalog is always available'."

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Re:RIAA/MPAA miss the boat, as always

[ThresholdRPG]

>> Rinikusu wrote:
>>
>> A second scenario is the whole kiosk idea, where you go to
>> someplace like Tower and burn-on-demand. What kind of
>> storage would a device need??

>> Rinikusu wrote:
>>
>> I think it actually needs to be done like Kinko's. YOu put
>> in your request, the "print service" fills it (by
>> requesting/downloading the appropriate image in a secure
>> fashion from a central server somewhere, then presses/burns
>> the CD), and then you pick it up a day or two later.

With all due respect, you are really ignoring a host of superior technological options.

How about a website where you drop songs into a shopping cart where each song costs $X.XX plus an additional base fee of $Y.YY for each CD-R needed to handle the volume of data the songs you selected includes?

That would not require many (or any) "$11/hour employees".

The point is that CD-Rs represent a way to fill the gap between refusing to sell old music at all and churning out 10 million Britney Spears CDs.