Here’s some nice stuff on format changes.
Say So Long to an Old Companion: Cassette Tapes New York Times
It’s a nice obituary.
And the library angle is discussed nicely at The Monkey Speaks.
And for a nice humourous contrarian view, you can check out the CanWest news service’s seemng national campaign to bring back vinyl:
Vinyl revival
Vinyl to Digital
And the Ottawa Sun chimes in too:
Surviving the digital age
I worry when I read quotes like this:
“At least 10 independent record stores in Ottawa now specialize in vinyl. Meanwhile, CD sales continue their painful plummet…”
What a mess statistically and informationally. Confusing a niche market with a mass market alone is frightening. Publishing it in the newspaper as fact is journalism at its worst.
If libraries had take this attitude we’d still be focusing on scrolls.
Stephen
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