Re: [Fsfe-france] Industrie musicale : la guerre est ouverte

[Laurent GUERBY]

Mort de rire :

http://www.disqueenfrance.com/

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Le fichier journal de la base de données 'snep' est plein. Pour libérer
de la place, sauvegardez le journal des transactions.

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On peut plus me ficher correctement, alors pas de site web :) :).

Plus serieusement, as-tu verifie que le CA des ventes de CD est bien
celui des ventes en magasin et non celui des ventes des majors
aux magasins ? Cf copie d'un courriel que j'ai envoye a 
la liste APRIL.

Laurent

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Encore un pointeur interessant dans le debat :
une sympatique manipulation de chiffre demontee,
je me demande si notre SNEP national n'en fait pas autant.

http://arstechnica.com/

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A little investigative journalism can go a long way, and Moses Avalon
http://www.kensei-news.com/bizdev/publish/factoids_us/article_23374.shtml

has turned up something rather curious: the numbers that the RIAA uses
to talk about "sales" are actually just numbers relating to
shipments. The gist of it is pretty simple: the RIAA has their own
tracking system based on units shipped, while Nielsen Ratings bases
their Soundscan tracking system on actual barcode-scanned
purchases. The problem is that Soundscan shows a 10% increase in music
sales when comparing the first quarter of 2004 to 1Q 2003. Yet, the
RIAA insists that music sales are down. Avalon suggests that sales
aren't down, only shipments are. How can that be possible? Simple: in
the past, the RIAA always shipped considerably more units than were
sold. Why the change? Retails stores simply want less inventory, so
they order less, even though they are selling more.

    Roger Goff, an Entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles confirms that,
    indeed, retail has reacted this way in the Post-Napster era. "Retail
    used to buy 10 weeks-worth [of records] and now they realize, in most
    cases, they don't have to carry more than two weeks-worth." In other
    words, retail has adapted to more of an "on demand" model (similarto
    the Internet) as opposed to the,
    accepting-tons-of-product-shoved-down-the-pipeline model record
    companies imposed on them in the past.

In other words, the supposedly woeful state of CD sales isn't all that
woeful after all. Retail outlets have been working hard to keep up
with online competition, and part of that has meant following the rule
of Dell: don't have inventory if you can avoid it.

The problem is, if this report is correct, then something seriously
wrong is afoot. If more units are being sold and fewer units are being
shipped, then that means the total cost-per-CD is actually in the
RIAA's favor. That is, with all things being equal, more sales and
fewer shipments ads up to more profit than before, because there's
less overrun and less returns from retailers who can't move
product. Thanks to Jack for sending this in.
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