The iPad and Sacred Music

A friend of mine writes to point out that the iPad will mean a revolution in the distribution of music as well as text. It will permit tens of thousands of pages of chant and polyphony to be downloaded for free and carried anywhere in a form that can actually be used. This might not happen this year but this is the future. What it portends for the old model of publishing is striking indeed. The future is not, however, something that friends of sacred music need fear.