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Article from the New York Times.
July 8, 2007
Media Frenzy
All Shook Up, Right Down to the Musical Core
By RICHARD SIKLOS
So omnipotent is the Apple digital music machine that just the possibility of one of its main suppliers holding back some of its music from Apple’s iTunes music store is enough to make headlines and send shock [...]

A change of tune
Jul 5th 2007
From The Economist print edition
Faced with shrinking profits, record labels are touting a new approach
IT HAS become a familiar refrain. For years record labels, citing tumbling CD sales blamed on internet piracy, have decried the decline of the music industry. The reality is rather more subtle, as Edgar Bronfman, the [...]