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Alex Ross, New Yorker music critic, looks at classical music and digital downloads. Among other interesting things, he links to a recent NYT story that said:
Last summer the BBC mounted a Beethoven project (now over), which included free downloads of the symphonies. It registered about 1.5 million downloads.
And for anyone dreaming of creating a business plan around classical music on the Internet, here's another fact: it sells. By conventional wisdom, classical music accounts for 3 to 4 percent of overall recording industry sales. But on Apple's iTunes, the leading site for music downloads, classical music represents 12 percent of sales. Maybe there's hope for us classical fans.
Link from Marginal Revolution.
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