Study: CDs still dominate music purchases
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 22, 2008 at 2:15pm
Despite all the attention the iTunes Store gets, CDs still dominate music purchases by a huge margin, according to a study released Monday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
The survey, conducted by phone last August, focused on how the Internet influences consumer purchases of music, cell phones and houses. The Pew report says 82 percent of music buyers still prefer the old-fashioned CD. An eyebrow-raising 62 percent said they purchased all their music on CD, with 20 percent more saying most of their purchases were CDs. Only 12 percent said all or most of their purchases were via digital download.
But wait a minute? Last month research firm NPD declared Apple the No. 1 U.S. retailer in January with 19 percent of the market. What’s more, the NPD report said digital downloads made up nearly a third of music purchases in January. Read this Baltimore Sun articlel[/url], which looks at the apparent discrepancy.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
dave Says:
Even though CD’s are DRM-free AND have a large market share, it’s still too dangerous for the big labels to let Apple sell tracks without DRM [except for EMI]?
Posted on May 23, 2008