As an example of the devastation wrought on music publishers by the photocopier, one executive noted that for a recent choral festival with 1,200 singers, the festival’s organizing committee purchased only 12 copies of the music published by her company that was performed as part of the festival.
看朗播上给的翻译是这样的:
以下事件可以作为复印机对音乐出版公司造成破坏的例子:一位主管发现,为了最近的一个有一千两百名歌手参加的合唱音乐节,该音乐节的组织委员会购买了一些乐谱作为音乐节的演出作品,其中有12份是由她的公司发行的,而该音乐节的组织委员会购买的只是12份乐谱的复制品。