- From: Abigail <abigail@ny.fnx.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:14:09 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
You, Dan Delaney, wrote: ++ ++ On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Abigail wrote: ++ > Moral: had U2 made both a CD and a venyl record (which doesn't need ++ > recording things twice), they had made twice as much royalties. U2 ++ > certainly doesn't care how the man were dressed. They want to sell ++ > their work as much as possible, either for the royalties, or because ++ > they want to spread their toughts/words/music/feelings or whatever ++ > drives the musician. ++ ++ What you fail to realize here is that even though they don't need to ++ record twice, it DOES cost a lot of extra money to produce those LPs. The ++ problem is that there simply aren't very many people who have turntables ++ anymore, so the record company would actually lose money by producing a ++ bunch of LPs that very few people would buy. In order to get past the ++ overhead of producing them they would need to sell a certain amount, and ++ that just wouldn't happen. So none of them make LPs anymore. Yes, but the extra overhead for webpages isn't nearly as much as for venyl and CD versions. Abigail
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