Posted by NYC XYZ on 01/11/24 11:36

Biz wrote:
> Critically acclaimed or not, if they arent selling, why should anyone keep
> producing them?
>
> If you know that they are sellings hundreds of thousand of copies, then
> thats a different story, but I highly doubt these are big sellers...


But we're talking Columbia/Tri-Star here...surely it doesn't cost
anything, relatively speaking, to keep an inventory of fifty discs
around?

I'm reminded of what I'd read about F. Scott Fitzgerald's works being
out-of-print for a decade before being rediscovered sometime in the
'50s. Apparently, the publisher, Scribner & Sons, used to print up a
few dozen copies each year for the odd request, before new management
forced an entirely different business model.

This is what Thomas Jefferson had warned about...a nation of
shopkeepers, with the attendant boorish mentality! >=(

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