Music stores lack excitement, executive says
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SAN DIEGO -- Music mogul Clive Davis has some advice for retailers looking to persuade music fans to return to traditional record shops: Make shopping more fun.
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The music industry has long hoped  mobile phones will help turn around weak music sales, but music  executives privately fear the most obvious contender, the  iPhone, may give too much clout to Apple Inc. , in  shaping the future of the fledgling mobile music market.
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Decision not expected to slow flood of lawsuits against file sharers by the music industry.
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Just when it seemed erosion of music  sales during the holiday season couldn't get worse, December  snowstorms compounded the retail industry's misery.
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Music sales as we know them take another step toward obsolescence.
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The holiday mood at independent music retailers is one of cautious optimism, despite Nielsen SoundScan numbers showing that overall sales at U.S. indie merchants were down 7.1% from last year as of Nov. 28.
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More people would buy digital music if hi-tech locks were removed, say music executives.
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It's OK if the iTunes Store breaks even, just as long as it pushes sales of players, Apple execs acknowledge.
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Report: Rick Rubin, co-chairman of Columbia Records, calls music labels dinosaurs and holds out little hope for industry recovery unless dramatically overhauled.
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The world&#039;s biggest record company is  not ready to give the compact disc up for dead just yet, and is  giving the venerable music format a revamp.
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More people would buy digital music if hi-tech locks were removed, music executives tell a survey.
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Replacing physical CDs with digital music downloads doesn't necessarily help the environment.
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Online store will continue to offer certain songs at low prices, company says.
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By Kevin Maney  The online digital music business stinks.    ITunes, Rhapsody, Zune Store, Napster -- you name it. They're all failures.    The hype has people believing otherwise.
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Tower Records may be dead, but its flagship outlet in Los Angeles still has some relevance to the music industry.
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With music specialty stores dying by  the hundreds this year between the liquidation of Tower and  Musicland, Nordstrom and Sears may be picking up some of the  slack. Both retailers have added an entertainment cache to  their stores by carrying CDs.
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Two record store owners who have been friendly rivals for Harlemâs music dollars for almost two generations are on the cusp of being forced out of business within weeks of each other.