abstract:The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) is the not-for-profit international trade association dedicated to advancing the interests of the $32 billion home entertainment industry.
The EntertainmentMerchants Association's (EMA) 2008 annual report on home entertainment has found that "nearly 9 million high-definition discs were sold in 2007, " and just 12, 177 DVDs were released last year, down from a peak of 13, 950 in 2005.
We congratulate game retailers on this indisputable validation of their efforts, and commend groups like the EntertainmentMerchantsAssociation and our own ESRB Retail Council members for their ongoing work and progress in preventing the sale or rental of M-rated games to those under the age of seventeen.
"In the past few years, we've been getting calls from people interested in opening their own stores, " says Carrie Dieterich, vice president of marketing and industry relations at the Electronic MerchantsAssociation, the trade association for the home entertainment industry.