What is interesting in the current scramble for the killer online-music business model is that there is an implicit assumption that the only place people would want to go from the CD is online or mobile. The iPod heralded a new paradigm in music consumption, but it has done little to counter the impact of the CD’s terminal decline — and may even have helped accelerate it.
As things currently stand, the mass-market music consumer isn
This article originally appeared in Music Industry Blog.
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