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Internet and Merchandising Good For Indie Media

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sure-can't-hurt dept.

Snotty Pippen writes "A new study online (and its long) compares online revenue streams with brick and mortar ones for converting content into cash, and uses web comics as a basis of comparison. Metrist Partners note the study agrees with looks at indie music, that indicate the web is the place for distribution and that merchandising is where the real money is. T Campbell, who writes a bunch of web comics and edits Graphic Smash, bemoans it didn't come out before he wrote the chapter on money for his forthcoming book on web comics."

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  1. It's also good for off-beat publications by HunbunFunland · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lot's of sites are nice daily's but how well would they do in print? Take, for example, daily kos and OHUK.

  2. Not suprising by retinaburn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am not sure why this is news. It never really affected me in a big way until I started listening to the cbc radio3 podcast. It's a weekly podcast that features indie (for the most part) canadian music, featuring songs off of newmusiccanada. I have bought three cds from india artists in the last week, and each was about 10 bucks Canadian. It's a great way to bring together an indie audience and indie artists.