On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:06:39 -0400 Joe Hartley <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:37:54 -0400 > Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > what an interesting claim. perhaps you explain to me how it is that > > this is for sale at (typically) US$0.49 per track: > > > > http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/Global-Illage-Sushilove-Sessions-MP3-Download/12031810.html: > > > > and yet I'm still several thousand dollars in debt from the process > > that led to its creation? > > It's interesting to me that while the process of music distribution > is vastly different, the mechanics that screw over the musicians are > still firmly entrenched. > > Steve Albini wrote this classic piece on how a band that sells a > quarter-million albums can get boned: > http://www.negativland.com/albini.html > > Nowadays you can sell much more directly, but that means you pay > the costs directly, too. All that computer gear and the instruments > have to get paid for somehow! > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:13 PM, alexander <axeldenstore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Imo it's absurd that you can charge 0,89€ for a locked down mp3 and get away > > with it.. I mean, the profit margins are 100%.. or well, they start out at ~ > > -99.999...% and rise, approaching 99.99999999999999...% the more people who > > buy it. > > I believe that the most user-friendly sites (I've heard Amazon & iTunes > referenced) give the artist ~70% of the take, while eMusic only gives > the artist ~30%. So right off the bat, at *best* your direct profit is > only around 70%, but what about the time it takes to make the music? What > about the space and gear needed to create the music? Even if you're > using 100% open source software that you haven't shelled out a nickel > for and don't use any outboard gear at all, there's still an investment. > > I don't know too many people making money at music, and the ones who > do aren't making a lot, I can tell you. The 'investment' that most D.I.Y. recording artists forget is time! I just do it for fun myself, so I don't care, but if anyone is trying to be at all serious they should figure in their time at something like £30/hour. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
