The venerable Schwann Catalog, the bible of recordings releases, ceases quarterly publication to go annual with ongoing web updates. “One of the reasons we’re doing this is that new releases come out so frequently that a quarterly catalog wasn’t timely enough. Also, the Schwann Opus quarterly was exceeding 1,200 pages. Over the years we’ve tried all sorts of tricks, abbreviating record label names, changing fonts, abbreviating instruments. But the size of the catalog made it very costly to print.” – New York Times