|
|
Article: Cassettes face eject button as sales plummet.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2004
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: ED HARRIS
THE cassette tape seems destined to follow the 78rpm gramophone record into the history books of recorded music.
Once hailed as the future of prerecorded music, the flimsy plastic audio cassette now looks doomed, with sales plummeting.
Even vinyl, another format that was almost written off recently, is outselling the poor cassette - thanks to the enthusiasm of DJs, who adore the traditional 12-inch single.
New figures show the cassette tape market has collapsed over the past five years. In 1998 British consumers snapped up well over 50 million cassette tapes, spending a total of [pounds sterling]127 million. In 2003, ...