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...World Book Deluxe 2004 Aimed at kids in elementary school, the $30 World Book on CD has a paltry 22,000 articles and a lackluster interface. Better to visit the website at worldbookonline.com Updated daily, the site features a "Today in History" section that cleverly lures kids into the past. And the "Media Showcase" challenges kids with questions such as "What type of stone was used to build the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia?" (Answer: Sandstone.) A one-year subscription costs $50--almost twice the price of the CD set--but it's worth it for parents with young kids...
Take our word for it, you don't want to be in the record business right now. As downloading from the Internet gradually replaces browsing record-store aisles, CD sales have continued to fall--15% since 2000. But the flailing industry is trying to get hip to the new beat. A quick look at some recent developments. --By Kate Novack...
...Slashing CD Prices...
...sell the album at his shows, on Amazon.com and Bestbuy.com (for a small shelving fee) and on independent artists' websites like CDBaby. The entire enterprise will cost about $3,500, Geonetta figures. Here again, Guitar Center gains: it sells home-recording equipment and has just started a CD-copying service...
...RIAA must do what it would not do with Napster: distribute low price music online. And they know perfectly well that, even if lawsuits could stop the sharing, people would never go back to buying CD's. They are just trying to buy two or three years in which to keep milking the high price CD cow, before giving it up. But even this limited attempt is going to fail. Alberto Rezza Italy...