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| From | Steve Alter <shteevea@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: for Stewart and the subscribers to eMusic |
| Date | Tue, 8 May 2007 21:28:43 -0700 (PDT) |
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Man, this is depressing. I probably drop a few thousands a year on music, and it's not enough to support anyone. :-(
So, unless you were a star moving huge units, the traditional retail started breaking in the mid-90s, and it appears the various digitial models - whether it's iTunes subsidizing you or eMusic giving you 50% of a tiny pie - are broken as well.
Does direct digital distribution from artist to audience - no hard product, simply record, digitize and post - really not offer potential for a more equitable return to musicians, even with a manager/virtual label getting a cut?
Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> wrote:
At Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 23:52:45 Mark wrote:
>Plus you're also eliminating the shipping and warehousing costs, returns
>costs, breakage/shortage losses, and cold inventory costs. Overhead is
>without a
>doubt reduced, especially if you have large numbers of returns or unsold
>product, which is increasingly common in the record industry.
These costs are less than 2% of our annual budget. It's nearly negligible.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
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