Wal-Mart v. iTunes and Napster

The digital model evolves to the traditional retailer. See here. The new channel and its obnoxious (to the record industry) business model are ready to eclipse the old world.

Not with the hoo-ha and awe of the latter day Nostradami making predictions in the height of the late-90s bubble, but quietly and solidly with the journeyman economic weight of capability that only middle-American retailing might can heft.

Over the past several years, rather than listening to those experienced failures that retreated back to the industrial-era businesses with the sage advice to forget it all -- it was foolish -- we might have been well advised to repeat the film noir mantra: It's quiet . . . too quiet . . .

Posted by Grayson at March 24, 2004 08:31 AM