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Most of these changes are occurring with only grudging acceptance from the people who produce and sell the music. "The music industry is still much closer to its artists than to its customers," says Paco Underhill of Envirosell Inc., a consumer-behavior research firm in New York City. Record companies, he observes, sell CDs exactly the same way they sold LPs: as one-size-fits-all package deals. Meanwhile, consumers with shrinking leisure hours and attention spans are demanding that their music be portable and personalized or at least varied. Movie sound tracks like the one from Titanic, for example...
...another product, although many say they will probably sell them all. Other standard setters, such as Panasonic, don't sell any in the U.S. yet. For any recording scheme to go mainstream, it will have to get even cheaper and simpler, according to Chris Muratore, an analyst at Soundata, Inc., a market-research firm based in Hartsdale, N.Y. But there's clearly an appetite for recordable-music formats. According to Muratore's research, more than 90% of music buyers still use cassettes, and more than 30% of the cassettes they use are homemade...
...toward further research and consumer awareness of the causes of food-borne disease. We've learned many painful lessons about today's volatile food-safety environment and hope our experience and stories like yours will help prevent another tragic outbreak. CHRISTOPHER C. GALLAGHER JR. Director of Communications Odwalla Inc. Half Moon Bay, Calif...
...players, having failed to find money dumb enough to make him rich, would get his payback with so deft a pen? Nobody comes off clean in this vengeful little book, not the venomous heirs of Robert Maxwell nor the philistine publishers of Windows magazine nor the executives at Time Inc. (where the author worked briefly as a consultant). "I'm a writer," Wolff tells his business partner at the book's emotional turning point. "If this company goes down, I will...write. Perhaps about...
...cost containment. One solution is to make employers provide the sources for coverage but let the employee shop around for the best HMO that meets his or her needs. That way responsibility for health care will rest with the individual--and the marketplace. DAVID WOODS, President Healthcare Media International, Inc. Philadelphia...