
Originally Posted by
zonepress
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... the cost of making the WAV file of a Mahler symphony available is probably greater than the cost of manufacturing an actual CD. There are benefits of selling a WAV file over a physical CD—we don't have to carry inventory, we get paid right away, there are no returns—but it's not good business.
FLAC lossless is another issue. You can probably make pretty good money selling those files for less than a physical CD, which is what we want to do. So there will be lossless files available from ClassicsOnline.com and other sites. We're even ready to go to WAV files as well, but we haven't figured out how to make money from them.
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