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- From: "alexander inglis" <alexander.inglis@canrem.com>
- Subject: cd prices
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.4216.26223@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "alexander inglis" <alexander.inglis@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: rec
- Date: 28 Dec 92 21:53:05 EST
- Lines: 39
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- FV>I just want to comment on Chris Brewster's comments about the prices
- >of CDs. He posted a text by R. Goiffon, the president of Harmonia
- >Mundi USA trying to convince consumers to tolerate even higher prices
- >for classical CDs.
-
- FV>*** warning *** warning *** warning ***
-
- FV>The author is an economist. Proceed at your own risk.
-
- >Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:12:43 GMT
-
- THIS is how you spent Christmas Eve?!?
-
- I admit to finding a number of things to nit pick in the posting
- mentioned above but restrained myself. R Goiffon does the cause a
- disservice by presenting the argument in such a confused manner.
-
- I'm sure most of us here are prepared to pay an amount for the continued
- recording of new works and new artists. That's going to be built in.
-
- But the unspoken in Goiffon's remarks is that these non-major labels
- often acquire much higher prices than their competition (EMI, say). A
- mid-priced label like Hyperion in its native England is priced in my
- town as a premium import. Yet EMI manages to sell mid-price in both
- countries at mid-price. And I'm thinking of the sort of titles that are
- guaranteed *not* to sell in vast quantities: EMI's Schubert masses on
- Studio, for example. Don't tell me they're selling hundreds of thousands
- of *those* worldwide and thus have economies of scale!
-
- On a slightly different note, Goiffon mentioned that the *average*
- classical CD is lucky to sell 5,000 worldwide. That may be. Sony Canada
- reported recently it has sold 100,000 copies of Glenn Gould's 1982
- recording of the Bach Goldberg Variations *in Canada alone*! Wow!
-
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