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one with the widest possible selection, better service, and more respect for people’s ideas and lives.”

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huge chain stores were mercilessly swallowing up independent store

depriving communities across the country of a personal relationship with their musi

HMV chief executive Simon Fox reported that CDs currently account for about a quarter of HMV’s business

If HMV merely maintains its share of the shrinking CD pie over the next three years, the company projects its annual revenues from CDs to fall to £120 million

the entire CD market in the UK would be worth just £300 million in three years’ time

£145m of turnover that has to be replaced by “digital entertainment devices”.

1 million subscribers in Europe already pay the monthly premium subscription fee, while more than 10 million users go the free route.

Billboard reported that Spotify in just three weeks amassed at least 1 million total US users, and 70,000 paid subscribers in the first week

Spotify’s partnership with Facebook

ny labels or musicians who want to make money from CDs better wow buyers with unforgettable packaging

consumers have demonstrated that they’re willing to sacrifice sound quality for convenience and portability.

Not having actual possession of a digital file is the premise of ‘cloud’-based computing, a

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mass media to develop media franchises

type of thing that CD-ROM started doing in the 1990s

market will be worth more than £300m

downloads will total 1.8bn.

shelf-life average of just four weeks

51% of mobile phone owners, about 23 million people, use their device to either make a payment, redeem coupons or research products and services they later buy