Bert Bailey wrote: >Replying to Don Satz's puzzlement, Margaret Mikulska suggested: > >>I find it quite reasonable: when they see that a title sells, they >>order more of it. To the extent that classical music has mass appeal, >>Bach organ works have it. > >This might be sensible if there were a sizable CM audience. But we all >know that CM doesn't. > >I think Don had it right the first time: there's something wrong with >current practices. Yet, annoying or daft as it is, it's not likely to >change. An out-and-out misunderstanding or a very weak grasp of what's >being sold is at play with CM. The logic is not, and could never be, >like what works for selling fruit or pop music CDs: what sells oranges >or Eminem doesn't hold for CM, since the numbers are all different. I believe it is changing getting worse, and I believe the industry will continue to suffer for it. I agree completely that the numbers are indeed different. Karl