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Originally Posted by Solicitous
Then came MP3s and they were going to kill CDs. Music shops still exist, CDs are still bought and sold. Now of the people I know who buy MP3s still buy a CD of their favourite music and only buy MP3s for mainstream songs they like to have. I do the same with ebooks, buy mainstream books that I want to read but buy the paperbacks of books that I really like and for no real recognised reason I just want to have sitting on my shelf.
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I pretty agree with you but I think that the two things are a bit different. The need to collect real objects (CDs and books to put on your shelves) is the same in both cases but I think that with a CD the way you are approaching music is a bit different if compared with a digital album.
As someone was saying you are listening to the music with the booklet in your hands and your attention is all there... but when you download an album the first thing you do is listening to it on your computer and it's practically impossible to stay focused on music in front of a monitor. So I see a lack of attention in the way a user approaches "digital music" that is something new (and bad) compared to the "old style" and IMO that's also a reason why we are still buying CDs. We still can perceive a difference.
But I don't see the same difference of approach between reading a book or reading on a device so I think that with books the change will be more relevant than the one we are seeing with music.