Jim Donio Quotes

The savviest retailers will look for a way to work with music suppliers . . . to make technology part of their business. - Jim Donio

The marketing muscle that the big labels have can't be underestimated. The power of the Internet can't be underestimated. If you put the two together, they can't be underestimated. - Jim Donio

It's a really creative way to capture consumer fancy. It's all about choice. - Jim Donio

Consumer retailing is moving from primarily physical product to a combination of physical and digital... It's really not just limited to the changeover from physical to digital. It's the full breadth of products. - Jim Donio

By its nature, (digital distribution) is retailing, and (the record companies) don't have a history of that. - Jim Donio

A lot of the soothsayers and prognosticators could have been making it look like stores are going away in a year, that CDs are going away... I think that right now, for the foreseeable future, people are confident that physical CDs in a package in a store will be the mainstay for the future. That doesn't mean that this (digital) distribution method won't be growing ... but the research says it's going to be a small part of the business. - Jim Donio

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