On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, DON wrote:
> If the book publisher owned Xerox this might be true. In other words, the
> record co. would have to own the tape manufacturing co. in order to set the
> higher price as well as enjoy the profit from the higher priced tape. Sony
> records does not own TDK, BASF or Maxell.
But record companies and artists do have powerful lobbys, and
associations, and this is how the prices or recordable media have been
increased (by adding special gov't levies), at least in Canada. There is
a flat-rate levy on blank cassettes and CD-Rs - it has driven tapes up
quite a bit in the past while, but doesn't seem to have affected CD-Rs
yet.
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