The great thing about the internet is that it makes content universally available. But many of the holdouts are already ubiquitous. The Beatles’ 1 is America’s best-selling album so far this century, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Harry Potter books have sold more than 400m copies worldwide. At their peak they were sold in chemists and petrol stations.
— “Media’s Analogue Holdouts: Digitisation and Its Discontents”
