The cassette tape — once the preferred medium for car tunes and underground ’80s punk rock — had been living out a modest retirement, working occasionally in libraries as audiobooks. Now, newer, flashier media like downloadable books, combined with changing listening habits, are sending the cassette into obsolescence. Libraries are scorning cassettes as they would a poorly plotted romance novel.
“We’re letting them die their own slow death,” said Nancy Tracy, Salem assistant library director. “We’re not selling them off. We’re just letting them naturally die out.”
ORLY?
I thought it was the wholesale disappearance of the tape deck.
Maybe we rang the bell but someone else killed that m*therf*cker.
Plus
They have decided to stop producing them and selling them. Can’t really keep something going that you can’t buy anymore.
“Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds”
-Candide by Voltaire
Cassettes linger long after expected demise
See: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-08-05-cassettes_N.htm