March 29, 2004

LidCDs A Web Refugee Turns to Music and Says, 'The Sky's the Lid' [New York Times: Technology] 7:05:41 PM     Music sharing doesn't kill CD sales, study says. Researchers at Harvard and the University of North Carolina say music swapping isn't to blame for falling music revenue, and might even help sell CDs. [CNET News.com] 5:30:39 PM     Legal Online Music Available to Everyone (Except Libraries?...). Drop a Quarter in the Internet "Ready to kick the habit of downloading pirated music? Here are nine online services that can make an honest listener out of you. 'Extraordinary how potent cheap music is,' Noel Coward wrote. Sure enough, the 99-cent legal song download is having a potent effect on the music industry as we near the first anniversary of the Apple iTunes Music Store. Apple says it has sold more than 30 million songs at 99 cents per. Although billions of songs still trade hands illegally each month on file-sharing services like Kazaa, analysts expect that within five years online music will provide as much as a third of the music industry's sales, worth several billion dollars." [Fortune, via Technology360 Weblog] On my list of things to do in the very near future: contact each one of these services and see if they're willing to work with libraries. I'm taking bets now from all you gambling types.... [The Shifted Librarian] 5:10:51 PM

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