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Originally Posted by chadglni
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The quarter each to produce it plus the transport to your local music store... the time, the management of inventory... yeah, all of that does put a kink in their wallets.
Average music store has maybe 10,000 titles, anywhere from 2 to 10 copies each. They have to maintain them, sort them, stock them, re-order them, and generally keep the inventory on hand.
A "you burn it" store only has to have a computer with high end MP3s, a way to select them, and a pile of blank disks. New songs are delivered digitally to the store (little or no shipping cost) and the entire back catalog can still be accessed without issue. Set up a store with 20 or 30 listening areas / burners and away you go.
It changes everything in the music business, the same way Itunes has already started to gut regular music stores.
Alex