Re: [microsound] mp3 label practicalities

[dkl37@xxxxxxxx]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:29:02 +0100 Store <store@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> so you have to go and 
> PAY for the promotion of mp3s and that means, you have to have a
regular 
> income and quite a bit of what is called idealism to maintain a 
> label on the web.																																		
Hi Store. I believe someone has already mentioned this but, I think the
way to go for mp3 labels that are low on funds and meg space, is to give
releases time limits (the equivalent of limited cd runs) or perhaps some
kind of rotation, etc. This obviously frees up space for new releases.
And as you mentioned, an additional idea would be to offer (or sell) hard
copies after (or before) a release ends it's tenure, provided of course,
the artists are ok with that.															
>  I don't know what experiences other administrators/webmasters make
with 
> CD/CD-R sales, the risk is quite low of course if you just produce on 
> demand, but usually I don't believe it will purvey enough money to 
> pay the artists AND balance the losses caused by webspace payment, not 
> to speak about the time people invest in caring and updating the pages.
																		
Well, of course, when starting a label, there are certain things that one
has to build up gradually. To be honest, I'm just beginning to get to the
point with and/OAR where I can think about "paying" artists, not with
money, but with a percentage of copies made of their cdr releases.
Before, the policy has been like the one for the compilations I produce
for phonography.org, where I give each artist one copy and the extra
copies are available at cost. This, and the money from sales goes back
into the particular fund to recoup costs and to build for future
releases. 																										
 																
Cheers, Dale																	
		
 

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Dale Lloyd:  http://www.and-oar.org/dalelloyd.html                       
                  
and/OAR:  http://www.and-oar.org/

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