If artists/labels start selling music online by themselves, on their one web page, how are you going to find it? It would work for establish artists/labels, because people would be searching for their music, but lets say someone totally new appears. He set's up a web page, puts his music online, and nothing happens. It's the same as if he would record CDRs, go in front of his house and sell them there (ok, a bit easier to get to him over internet :), but you get the picture.
Like it or not, there will always be some middle man. Jernej www.soundoflj.com/octex > -----Original Message----- > From: jonathan morse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21. oktober 2003 15:57 > To: Lester Kenyatta Spence; 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: (313) was groovetech now itunes > > > I was thinking along that lines too, but in this case apple > and their itunes > music store are still a middle man in as much as a record label or > distributor is a middle man. the artist who sells their wares > through iTMS > still only recieves a cut of the .99 cents per track just as they only > receive a cut of the selling price regradless if its > wholesale or retail > from a 'hard copy' release. I would guess that the day isnt > too far off when > you see artists/labels selling their output direct to > consumers online using > a similar business plan, especially given the advent of > technologies like > final scratch. yes, there is somethng to be said for a slab > of vinyl but the > overheads and prfofit margins for establishing and operating a > direct-dowload label would have to be better than for a > traditional label I > would think, even if only slightly, which still puts more money in the > pocket of the artist/label owner. > > personally, I know I much prefer being able to listen to the > tracks on line > from a 12" or LP and purchase only the ones I want at a buck > a pop (see the > poker flat web site) vice dropping $10 - $20 bucks for the > actual release in > a retail outlet for the other tracks I didn¹t want > >
