CompuServe Thread

>>If you're really interested in this (and you must be, to spend so much time & bandwidth on it 😉 you ought to get the disc we'll be publishing later this year called "CD Publishing: The Seminar Disc."<< Sure, I'd be interested in finding out more about your product. The reason I've invested the time here is because all of this has been stewing around in my head for the last 10 years or so. This has been a great exchange for airing these issues. It is important now because the technology is on the verge of allowing huge changes in the way music is published, marketed, distributed and consumed. I do not believe that we are ready to incorporate these new technologies, yet. Too many people have the mindset of equating the artifact with the music. How will these same people deal with it, when there is no longer any artifact? I mean, once you load any other software onto your computer, do you have to carry along the original diskettes? Why should you have to do so with music? Human nature being resistant to change, I'm sure I can expect to wait a while longer to realize my dreams of access to music in ways that transcend the artifact. I believe the next technological advance to challenge the status quo will be the emerging higher capacity CD's. When you can fit a dozen albums onto a CD, it becomes possible to fit many artists' entire catalogues onto one CD. How much will be charged for such a disc? Can they charge twelve times as much? It will become much clearer whether we are paying mostly for the "rights"to listen to the music, or for costs of producing and distributing the artifact. Regardless, there is a lot of change ahead and I look forward to it. The consumer will benefit, especially people who want access to a wide spectrum of music like myself. And I expect and hope that the artists will benefit as well. It's been fun! Britt B.