WEB/TECH: From Analog Dollars to Digital Dimes and Back

NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker recently lamented that the entertainment industry has exchanged "analog dollars for digital dimes". Five years ago we sold as many CD's as possible for $15. Now the music industry hopes that a few consumers will give them 99 cents...or less. But exceptions are beginning to emerge from a new musical middle class. Trent Reznor collected well over $1 million within days of a self-release by offering Nine Inch Nails fans everything from a $5 download to 2500 $300 limit...

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