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RE: Just received notice that Classics Online will discontinue 2/1/17

Thanks Alan.

I have just sent a message to my contact within Sony Music to see if he knows anyhting about this. I'll let you know what his response is.

If it is true I suspect that it is literally true. That is that Sony is going to pull out of pressing CDs but not the CD market itself. Their discs will maufactured by outsourcing the process. I reckon that there will still be Sony CDs around for a while yet.

As the CD market declines then so does the need for manufacturing capacity across the industry so this could be a completely rational decision. Or it could be the result of that odd (to us) way the Japanese do business where long term plans can be adhered to seemingly irrespective of the actual market conditions. The cessation of CD manufacture in 2018 could have been decided on by them years ago.

Regards

Pete


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