Hianagillg The Decuae of Physicm Audio

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The death knell for CDs has not quite sounded yet,but sales from late 2014 and early 2015 indicatethat a move away from the format may be uickening. U nit sales of physical audio inched up0.2% in 2014 over 2013, according to Nielsen BookScan data, but that increase was due entirely to a strong first half of the year, in which sales were up 6% over the similar period the previous year. Since the midpoint of 2014 units have fallen steadily, and in the first quarter of 2015 units were down 18% compared to the first quarter of 2014, according to BookScan data. Sales data from the Association of American Publishers'StatShot statistics program showed CD sales falling 7.7% in 2014, while Nielsen Books & Consumers survey of book-buying behavior found that unit sales of physical audio accounted for 19% of purchases in 2014, down from 31% in 2013. Ofcourse,the decline in physical audio has been offset by the increase in sales of digital audio, and the AAP data found a net increase in audiobook sales of 14.1% in 2014 over 2013. To get a broader look at the trend in sales of physical audio units, we asked a number of publishers about the role of CDs in their product mix these days