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Paperback Music: One Solution to the MP3 Debate


Related link: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/magazine/01WWLN.html

In the NY Times Mag, Rob Walker suggests the recording industry could cozy up to downloadable music the way book publishers did to paperbacks, or the movie moguls did to videos. Downloaded music could be paperback music -- published six months after the album debuts on CD, without all that great packaging, and with MP3, not CD quality (they ain't the same!). Would you pay $9 for a downloadable album instead of $18 for the real McCoy?

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