ArkivMusic
“It has become received wisdom that the future of music distribution is in downloading, and that the CD’s days are numbered, as surely as the LP’s were. Yet here is the ArkivCD, resurrecting recordings in a format whose obituary has already been written.
“‘For classical music, it’s a whole different ball game,’ Feidner [president of ArkivMusic] responds, pointing out that the genre is a niche that often has quite different priorities from the broader music market. He cites a survey the company did at the end of last year that confirmed what they already suspected: Classical music consumers are concerned about sound quality and thus loath to purchase music in compressed formats like MP3. They also want to have liner notes and vocal texts, and prefer hard copies to electronic formats like PDFs.
“The bottom line, says Feidner, is that ‘overwhelmingly, our customers want to buy physical CDs.’”–from article by David Weininger, Boston Globe
ArkivMusic.com, The Source for Classical Recordings
