2006-10-29 05:43:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing ➔ Other - Advertising & Marketing
2 factors impact the sale of any goods... Supply and demand... Supply can be anything from manufacturing, marketing, getting the CD on shelf, seasonality etc... Demand covers popularity, price, other compettive activities etc....
2006-10-30 21:01:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The demand for CDs is one thing that could affect their supply. If people want more, the CD manufacturers will make more. If something better comes along and makes CDs obsolete, people won't want as many CDs and they will be harder (if not impossible) to find. Anyone remember 8-track tapes?
2006-10-29 16:24:29 · answer #2 · answered by Suzanne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Distribution. That's always the problem with any product -- easy to generate ideas, easy to make, hell to distribute to customers.
The UK's music-shop cartel will only put stuff on their shelves that the big music labels pay them to display. In other words, the multiples (chain stores) make money for just having the CDs visible to customers, not just by selling them. If a label isn't interested in distributing a certain artist's CD to the multiples with which they have agreements, then that artist's CD will not be in supply to consumers.
I don't know if that has answered your question but I hope it will help you consider buying records from independent shops and online distributors rather than the biggie high-street chains!
2006-10-30 15:32:35 · answer #3 · answered by Summer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the materials that are used to make CDs runs low this will affect the supply.
2006-10-29 13:48:12 · answer #4 · answered by Tatty Ted 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it was very popular
if there wasnt enough printed to match demand
if more people bought other formats of the same thing.
2006-10-29 13:46:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋