[CUBE] itunes 4-Where to now?

[Riba]

>> Possible, but I doubt it. The technology to deliver online books has 
>> been
>> around for a decade but book stores are still doing just fine, 
>> because there
>> are people who prefer the old medium.
>
> But books != music. There are distinct reasons why, with books, some 
> (most)
> people prefer the old medium; you hold it in your hands to use it. With
> music, the medium is irrelevant; as long as the music is coming from 
> the
> speakers, who cares what the medium is?

Exactly what I thought. But it is not that different - there a lot of 
audio purists who dislike even the CD as a medium, and god forbid any 
compressed format. If I really like something, I don't want to own it 
in any kind of lossy compression format.