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| From | "Mike Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Digital-only reissues |
| Date | Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:47:38 -0500 |
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What are the prices on these digital-only reissues? That's a vital
component for back catalogue that was considered deadwood for years. If
it's a standard $12-14 per album, it's too much. $7 or so would seem to be
more like it.
Mike Bennett
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>From: "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Digital-only reissues
>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:08:29 -0400
>
>At Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:09:38 Bryan wrote:
>
>>You can thank David Ponak (Mello Cads fame) who is on this list, I
>>believe, for making those Figures On A Beach digital releases a reality
>>...(and me too, a little bit, for helping to set them up). There are tons
>>and tons of releases coming out which basically have never been available
>>on CD before....going from LP...to digital.
>
>The major labels need to adopt this strategy sooner rather than
>later....especially if they're bemoaning the death of the CD.
>
>Following the availability of all our existing CD catalogue on iTunes --
>everything should be there by early September (except Klaatu which is a
>long and unresolvable legal issue) -- we'll be issuing a few dozen
>digital-only albums including all the pre-1997 Bullseye catalogue including
>but not limited to our origins in 1985 (we've got some rogue stuff that
>pre-dates the label proper). I'm having fun going through the archives and
>getting this material digitized. Hope people out there like it too. More as
>it unfolds...probably early '08
>
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