In many cases, he was offering to sell catalogs that were once independent but over the years had been absorbed into EMI, like those of Virgin, Mute and Chrysalis.
(McCaughan, who is both the lead singer of Superchunk and the co-founder of Merge, also had a more pragmatic answer to the question of why Superchunk shouldn't break up: "Because bands that break up don't keep selling catalog records").
Other studios are expected to start selling catalog films on iTunes in the near future, though none have indicated they are willing to cut prices for films just as they hit DVD.
Storage has traditionally been like a cross selling catalog, with vendors filling in their product portfolios by OEM'ing equipment from others Dell actually resells EMC's high-end storage gear today.
Otherwise, as antibody companies are bought and sold, catalog numbers will change and it may become difficult to reproduce experiments, because it will not be clear which original antibody was used.
After graduating, Ms. Taylor got a job as a receptionist selling catalogs at the Sotheby's outpost in Chester, England.
"He saw one of those infomercials where this guy was selling catalogs of government grants for $99," recalled Paul Ruben, an uncle of Mr. Johnson and a software engineer in Murray, Utah.
Until last year, it refused to sell its catalog on the iTunes Music Store, since iTunes insists on selling individual songs.
"I didn't want to sell a catalog image," explains Piero Lissoni, the prolific Milan designer who is also the art director for all three companies.
It announced in January that it would close a handful of underperforming stores, as well as two of its five call centers and 19 outlets that sell excess catalog merchandise.
