Firstly, "movie theater" does not mean "movie." Even if dvd, blu-ray, and so on kill off movie theaters, that doesn't mean they've killed off movies. Secondly though, it doesn't appear that they're doing anything of the sort.

Look at this.

Obviously that's not a full year analysis, but the other numbers I've seen are also pretty positive. Even the negative reports you see don't show disaster, only a slight slump, which has happened many, may times over the years (just check the wikipedia article). Movies are hardly dead. By a very long shot.



The mp3 revolution has killed the --> CD <-- industry. It's killed producers who produce CDs, and are too inflexible to do anything else. Apple, on the other hand, is doing quite well with their music sales. iTunes is a cultural phenomenon. As to the artists, everyone always said that CD sales were terrible, terrible deals for artists. I think (I'm not sure about this) that Authors get a larger chunk of each iTunes sale than they did via CD. As to the concept of the album being dead, sure, maybe. You can argue that sales will go down because people don't buy entire albums, but you can also argue that sales will go up because people who didn't want to buy the whole album will now buy a few songs.

Moving on: internet distribution also lets smaller bands get greater exposure, and even make some money. I have a friend with a small-time band, and his stuff is on iTunes. He makes some money every month. He'd NEVER have gotten a record contract. Ever. Don't tell me internet distribution killed music. It killed an inferior distribution model, that's all.



If I argue that you'd prefer it if you tried it, and you say "I'll never try it," well, I suppose we have a stalemate. Expensive books are fun to collect and look at, but an ereader provides a much better reading experience. I can't prove that to you, but you'll never know what you're missing until you try a reader. /shrug