“Despite costly efforts to build buzz around new talent and thwart piracy, CD sales have plunged more than 20 percent this year, far outweighing any gains made by digital sales at iTunes and similar services. ‘Everyone in the industry thinks of this Christmas as the last big holiday season for CD sales, and then everything goes kaput’.”
Tag: 05.28.07
Pirates Zooms Past $400 Million
Pirates of the Caribbean might not have broken American box office records, but worldwide? It’s a winner. “Walt Disney executives said that they had broken out in high fives on Monday morning in their Burbank offices as they learned that “Pirates 3″ would surpass $400 million in ticket sales around the world in its first six days of release.”
Who’s That At The Door? Oh, Come In, Nigella.
“The art dealer Charles Saatchi spends a lot of time sitting at his desk. You might, too, if your desk were more of a table, capacious enough to occupy almost an entire wall of a parlor-floor room in your Belgravia town house; if its placement allowed you to hear snatches of birdsong and to look onto leafy Eaton Square; if its surface were laden with monographs, notebooks, a pewter platter of cookies, several bright-colored plastic cigarette lighters, and a Mrs. Potato Head toy.”