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"Discounts to retailers": What? How does discounting cost money? Sure, it could eat into profits, but it's not like it costs anything, and they list profits separately. Of course, this is just their way to hide the fact that they're dumping to WalMart and BestBuy for reasons that escape me. Maybe they don't like independent retailers for some reason.

It's worse than that. Discounts to retailers are often labelled as "Promotional" such that the entire cost of the CD gets passed on to the artist (which then absorbs the royalties from about 5-10 other full price sales)

And just in case you were wondering, the book industry runs the same scam.
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