Why no digital liner notes?

[bellenseb]

I'm finally making peace with the brave new digital music world and starting to forgo CDs, but the one thing I really do miss is liner notes. Sure, you might be able to find some info online, but usually not track-by-track personnel and other liner note staples, pictures, thank yous, etc.
 
 Why don't liners either come as a download with an album, or get treated like album cover art, accessable from a centralized database when you play an album in a media program? Would it be so hard?

[chaz]

Dude, i just need something with a gatefold to seperate the seeds from the buds.  This digital age is bumming me out.

[shoelaces22]

Some do- I know that the newest Ryan Adams album came with a "digital booklet" that opens with Adobe Reader.  It just hasn't caught on with everyone yet, which is too bad because it's something that I enjoy.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by bellenseb:
   but usually not track-by-track personnel and other liner note staples, pictures, thank yous, etc.

Isn't this basically what a bands Myspace page, band blogs and tour diary's are for these days?

[RustyOrgan]

Buying music digitally is good for people who aren't really into music. People who don't care about lyric books, etc.  These people suck.

[bellenseb]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by bellenseb:
   but usually not track-by-track personnel and other liner note staples, pictures, thank yous, etc.

Isn't this basically what a bands Myspace page, band blogs and tour diary's are for these days? [/b]

Pics and thank yous, maybe, but not track-by-track personnel (who does backing vocals on that one song? which band members wrote each song?)