Friends,
Some of you may be more aware of us than I was.
Back in January I observed on the Finale website, an updated "Finale
Viewer", and wrote:
Friends,
So, while looking on the Finale website for something else, I found
that the Finale Viewer is back, promoted as "...the easy, fast, and
professional way to sell digital sheet music on the interent." It now
appears to provide for file encryption, and for secure printing
transactions. The page includes a testimonial quote from the
President of Hal Leonard, Hal Morton. Given that they were an early
backer of Scorch, one wonders what the long term import of this will be.
I recently stumbled across a site which suggests to me the reason why
Hal Leonard switched from the competitor's Scorch technology to the new
Finale Viewer: S~ opened an online publishing venture. I suspect that
MakeMusic is prohibited from doing so, by the terms of the agreement by
which the company acquired the Finale assets from the predecessor
organization, "Net4Music", which owned Finale for a year or so.
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