Quinn has posted a great article on his site (I've bolded the really fascinating part below):
At the risk of jinxing things – I think it’s
pretty clear that there’s a historic shift underway between activities
we used to engage in offline and things we now do online. It’s no
surprise, for example, that CD saleswere down 20% this US holiday season while online shopping was up 19%. That’s how it works, right? People are moving from one marketplace to another, more virtual one.
Another dataset released this weekend, however, paints a more complex picture. According to the newest study from the Pew Internet and American Life Center –
the youngest, most affluent and most internet-connected adults in the
US are also the most likely to visit a physical library. It wasn’t that
way just 10 years ago. How many
other legacy industries can you think of today that can say their
strongest growth is among young, affluent, power-internet users? Something is going very right in library land. The music business ought to pay close attention to what’s going on there.”
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