Music sales may not be down after all

Interesting piece last week in Kensei News that sorts out the claims by the RIAA that music sales are down. Turns out they're referring only to shipments to stores, not sales to customers. Writes Moses Avalon (author of Confessions of a Record Producer: How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business:

[H]ere's an oversimplified example: I shipped 1000 units last year and sold 700 of them. This year I sold 770 units but shipped only 930 units. I shipped 10% less units this year. And this is what the RIAA wants the public to accept as "a loss."

Read the whole thing, including the reponses from RIAA president Cary Sherman.

Thanks to Ann Gabriel of the Webcaster Alliance for the pointer.