hmm, the music business may in fact be dead.

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Originally Posted by markolas

Speak for yourself. All my files are backed up.

What do you use to back up your files? I have so much on this computer attempts at a full backup always fail. I need to at least manually back up the data.

The music industry ripped us off for years and consumers even won a class action lawsuit against them. Did they reduce the price of CDs? No. They are crooks and they're reaping what they've sewn. That said I do buy all my music with the exception that I have a friend who downloads and shares tons of music. I know technically that is the same thing but I didn't actually download it myself. The music I want I buy.

I have an issue with the audio quality of MP3s which is why I like to get the physical CDs. MP3s lose some of the richness due to compression and it sucks. I heard that a new format may be coming out that is higher quality. Well I read it somewhere in my FB news feed so it must be true! I want a turn table and a record collection. Mine was stolen. I didn't have more than a dozen records but they were mine and they're gone.

Books are going through something similar. I don't think that industry is as shady as music. Maybe because there's a lot more sobriety there. I love my Kobo and read more and buy more books since I got it. I'm terrible at organizing physical books and they seem to pile up so fast. It's really nice to have so many books at my finger tips. It also comes with 100 classics that are in the public domain. I just got it and Borders is releasing the new touch version soon. Ugh! They're product is technologically behind though so waiting for the next gen makes sense.

Anne Rice talks a lot about the publishing industry on her Facebook page. She is open with fans and it is fun to chat with her there. She is bummed out about the eBook revolution but I think she's coming around a bit seeing that sales are good. The thing is you can't write in the margins or fold pages you'd like to revisit which does detract from the experience many readers/authors enjoy when reading. As the technology improves I think it's likely you'll be able to do this digitally. Maybe on some readers you already can IDK.

Speaking of AR she loves Stevie's NOLA and said she was honored and it made her want to go there. She no longer lives there.