[NewMusic] Death of the record industry (cont'd.)

[Matthew Goodheart]

On Sep 4, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:

>
> The fact that it is a lot easier to get music for free makes a lot  
> more
> sense in terms of declining sales.

 From this month's Harper's Index:

Portion of all Internet traffic today that is file sharing of music,  
films, and videos: 2/3


And a few items about a related industry:

Minimum number of different books sold in the U.S. last year, as  
tracked by Nielsen BookScan: 1,446,000
Number of these that sold fewer than 99 copies: 1,123,000
Number that sold more than 100,000: 483