http://www.datachondria.com/2009/the-end-of-my-cd-addiction/ Better Living Through Data Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:18:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.datachondria.com/2009/the-end-of-my-cd-addiction/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Bookstore to customer: I want you for your body « Datachondria Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:14:55 +0000 http://www.datachondria.com/?p=44#comment-7 [...] For my part, I don’t go to record stores anymore. What’s the point? They sell content I want at a price I don’t want to pay and in a format that’s no longer convenient to me. Buying music now means iTunes. How then will bookstores keep from entirely losing the foot traffic of people who’ve come to prefer consuming their primary product digitally? [...] [...] For my part, I don’t go to record stores anymore. What’s the point? They sell content I want at a price I don’t want to pay and in a format that’s no longer convenient to me. Buying music now means iTunes. How then will bookstores keep from entirely losing the foot traffic of people who’ve come to prefer consuming their primary product digitally? [...]

]]> http://www.datachondria.com/2009/the-end-of-my-cd-addiction/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Billy’s Days Are Numbered, or The Return of Tapestries « Datachondria Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:59:37 +0000 http://www.datachondria.com/?p=44#comment-4 [...] I’ve bought my last CD and though the switch to e-books remains a ways off, certainly my first e-book purchase is imminent, though who’ll get my money remains to be seen. I can see boxing up the CDs and tucking them into a corner of the basement before year’s end: between Last.fm and whatever else is on the horizon I can’t rightly say that I’m worried about losing the social aspect of music collecting. Will LibraryThing do the same for books? [...] [...] I’ve bought my last CD and though the switch to e-books remains a ways off, certainly my first e-book purchase is imminent, though who’ll get my money remains to be seen. I can see boxing up the CDs and tucking them into a corner of the basement before year’s end: between Last.fm and whatever else is on the horizon I can’t rightly say that I’m worried about losing the social aspect of music collecting. Will LibraryThing do the same for books? [...]

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