[78-L] RIP CDs - and printed stuff in general

[Rodger Holtin]

Didja read that - "magazines will be next" - ?
The slide won't stop there, either.  Even our college bookstore quit selling CDs in 2009.
 
But wait- there's more - our university IT department has been trying to shut down the bookstores on campus for two years.  The techies see them as dinosaurs and, further, it's their job to slay them, and they are diligent.  They've pushed every new techie toy possible for students and faculty and don't upgrade staff computers until they crash.  Yell bingo if any of this sounds familiar.
 
Our other bookstore caters to a niche market and will hang on a while longer, but it won't last many more years as it is.  College bookstores are just gift shops anyway.  Except for textbooks, I can carry all the other books out in my arms in one or two trips, and this just pushes it more that way.

Rodger

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--- On Wed, 11/2/11, DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com> wrote:


From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
Subject: [78-L] RIP CDs
To: "78-L at 78online.com" <78-L at 78online.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 2:50 PM


Michael Biel wrote:

Whose news?  What was their source?  Doesn't sound reliable because it
doesn't seem to appear anywhere else.  The only similar story I find is
a Nov 21, 2009 Daily Mail story where Linn has stopped making PLAYERS,
but the highly innacurate headline reads "Death of the compact disc as
iPod boom forces CD maker to end production"


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There is a lot of mumbling about this story on the internet.  Here is a news item about it:

http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=46980_0_2_0_C

db
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