On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:03:53 +0200, scott wrote:

> Anyway, sit back and feel comforted that your extra donations to the
> record companies mean they can charge the rest of us a tiny bit less for
> everything else they sell

Except that they don't.  I remember when CDs came out, they talked about 
how much less expensive it was to produce CDs than cassettes, and the 
initial marketing (which drove adoption) was that CDs *would* be cheaper 
than cassettes.

Yet cassettes tended in the $6-$8 range IIRC, but CDs never really 
dropped below $15 (for first run, obviously clearance stuff was reduced 
below that).

Jim

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