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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
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Subject: Re: How long can I wait?
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 08:41:36 EDT
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A further four cents worth on this subject:

1) I noticed in a source which I have forgotten that CD runs tended
to be very small compared to vinyl runs so that with a fixed production
capability, a large number of titles could be produced. This accounted
for the observed fact (at least last year) that titles came and went
and when they went, they didn't come back. Also that trying to order
through any normal channel (record store) was futile.

2) More recently, an industry source I am not at liberty to name advised
a small group of which I am a member that the big record mfrs have
discovered that pop-rock titles sell like hotcakes in CD. So, you take
your typical pop classic with sales of 21 million discs and you divide
by your plant capacity of 400,000 per month, and then you tell all
the classical discs waiting for production to get lost. This explains
why, when I visited Sam Goody last night I found little classical
stock and prices higher than ever - oh yeah, and the classical stuff
pushed to the back of the store, while up front theres this big
section of pop-rock CDs.
Oh, yes. He also observed that no one was putting any more money into
increased CD production because it takes two years to start and then
another year to get yields up to an acceptable level, plus some 
number of millions which I have forgotten (37?). The mfrs don't
want to risk all that loot when technology may completely change
the market in that time with,say, digital cassettes or something else.
...Sigh...

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