[Malte Müller]

So there is no misunderstanding: the numbers Malte quoted are not indicative of any rise in physical media sales, they are still “shrinking”.

Thanks and good summary! I didn’t meant to indicate that physical media was rasing!

All I need to to is scroll through my Amazon list for some of the classical recordings I’ve bought over the years there, and compare the price I paid then to what the same release would cost me now. It’s often tripled or quadrupled in price, sometimes even more. Sometimes, there are offers of used CDs way more expensive than they were when I bought them new.

And of course everything involved from postage to materials got more expensive additionally as well which the nice cannot compensate anymore by numbers. Yeah, the curse of the niche…