On Jan 11, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 11.01.2007 Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
This raises a question for me. How many libraries would purchase a
complete edition?
The estimate of ca. 40 is a good one, in my experience. I'm doing a
complete edition of A.P. Heinrich, and I would guess that's about how
many libraries are buying every single volume as they come out.
However, that does not represent total sales. If you make sure your
editions are readily performable (especially in making sets of parts
available!), you will find performers buying them, and of course there
will always be libraries who buy less than the complete set.
Also, 40 copies of, say, 40 volumes is nothing to sneeze at. If you
charge $40 per volume, then your total income for the whole edition
will be $64,000.00--a substantial sum even after production costs are
factored in.
One final point: the more volumes of your edition appear on the shelf,
the greater curiosity they will evince among tomorrow's virtuosi and
conductors. I've been publishing Heinrich for 16 years now, and a
tipping point seems finally to have been reached as far as the
orchestral music is concerned, if the recent upswing of performances,
recordings, scholarly attention, and inquiries is any guide.
Bottom line: If you have a true commitment to this music, you'll
publish it. If you don't, you won't. That's all there is to it.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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