I suspect the best way this could happen is if it was licensed out to someone like Collector's Choice or Rhino, because they do niche marketing through their catalogs and websites, and are able to turn a profit on small-batch releases, where the bigger record companies can't do the marketing to justify the release and have much higher overhead to make it profitable. It's amazing the arcane and obscure stuff on these two labels, stuff that have very tiny markets, will only sell in the thousands, but these guys can put them out, In the case of Collector's Choice, there are many titles that you will never see in stores but can only get through their catalog or website.
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <<Bob is oh-so-right. >> > > Well, there are two schools of thought, I suppose...if you look at Amazon.com, >basically Joni's entire catalogue is priced from $12 to $15 EXCEPT for DED which is >priced at $6.97. That's $7 for a brand-new, unsealed CD. Whether we like it or not, >it's obviously a turkey in terms of sales. > > So, does it seem foolish to do a re-release with new tracks, or would it be a way to >generate enough new business and interest? Of course in our world this would be big >news, but in the world outside the JMDL it's hardly a spit in the ocean. Look at it >this way...would you go back and buy a CD re-release that you didn't have much >interest in in the first place? > > Brenda, if you're listening, maybe you can add some wisdom from the business side. > > Like I say, obviously I'd love to see them, and would buy them up! > > Bob > > NP: Jackson Browne, "Jamaica Say You Will"
