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Information Technology News Classical music fans embrace downloads 'appassionata'
Information Technology News Classical music fans embrace downloads 'appassionata' | Classical music fans embrace downloads 'appassionata' |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 19 January 2007 | |
  
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Sony BMG says Yo-Yo Ma intends to focus on the opportunities afforded in the digital world, and to this end Sony Classical has created a podcast series based around the Appassionata album, to be featured on iTunes' podcast page. Also, his entire catalogue is now available for digital purchase. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry reported this week that the record industry generated revenues of almost $2 billion in 2006 from online and mobile device sales, an 80 percent increase over 2005. However this increase failed to compensate for the loss of revenue from reduced CD sales: overall revenues declind by about three percent. {moscomment} |
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