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From: jabusch@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: CD-ROMs
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Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 12:33:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 28 12:33:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!jabusch    Sep 28 11:33:00 1985



	Well, as long as the CD's keep selling at the rates they are, and
the record companies don't feel a drop in sales due to competition, the
CD's will continue to remain in the same price range.  They did drop from
around $20, but that was over the period where CD players were not yet in
wide use, so that drop may be discounted.  I believe that when Christmas 
rolls around and the record companies want to dramatically increase their
sales, we'll see these prices drop quite a bit, perhaps to around $10 on
the average.  One problem here is that your average consumer thinks more
highly of CD's than of LP's, even though the sound quality may be the
same on some recordings. (I'm not trying to start a discussion on the
relative quality, etc.) The point is that the recording industry will 
continue to make what they can, just like the software industry.


John W. Jabusch
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