The Change Mariner

Music industry changing its tune

San Francisco Chronicle:

Fourteen-year-old Miriam Rosenau is a typical member of "Gen D," a generation of customers vital to the survival of the recording industry.

That's "D" as in "digital" and "download," two words that also describe an inexorable shift in consumer behavior that experts say will force the $32 billion worldwide recording industry to overhaul the way it does business.

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