Word: blanke
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...They were totally irresponsible to sign a blank check,” he says...
...computers that help users create personalized mixed CDs. Consumers love these innovations, which give them what they want--easy access to favorite tunes anywhere they choose. They are clearly willing to pay for this convenience, as shown by the $1.6 billion they spent last year on CD burners, blank CDs and digital-audio players, as reported by the tech-research firm NPDTechworld. And fewer and fewer music lovers are willing to buy the music industry's shopworn business model: $17.99 for a recorded CD that contains only a couple of tracks they like...
...number of owners of computers with a drive that burns CDs (called a CD-RW drive, short for recordable/writable). A third of all PCs have one; 54% of new computers come with one installed. Half of CD-burner owners, reports Forrester Research, create at least one disc a month. Blank CD-Rs (discs on which you can record only once) bought in bulk cost as little as 25[cents] each. Making your own CDs--from your collection, from friends' discs or from downloaded tunes--is easier, cheaper, faster and more satisfying than any '80s mix tape ever was. Millions...
...manufacturers of blank CDs, the rip-and-burn trend has proved a windfall. Americans stocked up on 1.4 billion blank CDs last year. Memorex, stuck with decaying sales of cassettes and VHS tapes, deftly moved into the market for CD-Rs and now owns the top share, with 30%. By the end of the year, Memorex says, it will be completely out of the tape business...
...brilliant literary impressionist who hits every symbol, fulfills every gesture, while missing something essential beneath the shining surface. Perhaps he knows this. "In between each impression," Kunzru writes, "just at the moment when one person falls away and the next has yet to take possession, the impressionist is completely blank. There is nothing there...