New report says that music and book publishers could lose billions of dollars over the next few years because of the internet and digital copying. On the other hand, “it predicted that musicians will gain $1 billion, authors $1.3 billion, and third party service companies $2.8 billion by 2005 in ‘a historic transfer of revenues’,” due to artists choosing to distribute their own work. – The Age (Melbourne) 09/21/00