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January 10, 2005
digital market helps boost industry *surprise*
According to this Financial Times article the music industry in the UK at least is hailing a turnaround with album sales reaching a record high last year. The article goes on to mention u2's vertigo single as the top selling single download outstripping the hard copy - hardly surprising due to Apple's push of the album and single with iTunes. Eventually I'm certain that digital sales will outsell traditional methods and its only when the record companies are certain that they're making as much as possible that they will start to sing the praises of digital delivery. It was an interview with Bill Gates on gizmodo where Gates talks about the amount of voice that an individual on the internet has is the same as anyone else that has really got me thinking. It's true, anyone can setup a little self publishing operation like this one and really get some alternative views out there. I think that power of equal voice and also the ease of illicit digital distribution will always scare the record industry and all the other digital rights restricting bodies will always be at odds with their consumers. Just a thought.
Posted by funnelbc at January 10, 2005 06:52 AM
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