CD Packaging and the Environment: A Modest Proposal

Thoughts triggered by Brett Garrett’s April 22 letter complaining about CD plastic cases:

Garrett showed a total lack of appreciation for the best packaging design the music industry has ever created. The transparent album of the CD is elegantly functional, simple, compact and durable; and best of all, it’s uniform from label to label all over the world, a joy to stack, file and find.

It doesn’t take a genius to make a product cheaper, if no one cares about quality. The object, which has been the genius of the Japanese, is to reduce costs without reducing the quality of the product or its packaging.

JAMES D. DONOVAN

Beverly Hills