[James Tanner]

Sales of digital music surpassed those of CDs in 2011

Digital downloads accounted for more music sales than CDs and other physical media for the first time last year, according to Nielsen and Billboard's 2011 Music Industry Report. Digital track sales increased 8.5%, while physical sales fell 5%. InternetRetailer.com (1/6)

[skunark]

Sadly 99.9% of that was lossy files.

[Marius]

this is what Andrew Everard writes in Gramophone magazine:
CD is far from obsolete , down but not out.



hope you can read it, I can not copy text from within the Zinio-app, had to make a screen dump.

Marius