Digital Music News - 40 Years of Music Industry Change, In 40 Seconds or Less...

What scares me is that all the new colors that sprout up in the mid-2000s–the digital downloads, the streams–represent formats that libraries may not even be able to acquire for lending purposes. Indeed, some formats can’t be “acquired” by anyone, per se. Buying the same stuff over and over in every new format was already getting ridiculous, but what now?