RMS will die slowly of a twisted ankle in the woods while talking to a 911 operator on his hand built cellphone, unable to sufficiently describe his location.
That's smart. Apple charges $5 for new Xcode until Lion comes out so you are going to stop using Xcode3 and start using an IDE for entirely different processors?
I will admit that I could be ignorant. I'm not deperate.
Readability takes 30% of the money they make and passes 70% on to publishers. That's what their website says: "70% of all Readability membership fees go directly to writers and publishers." https://www.readability.com/publishers. Did they change that and not change their site?
Readability was kicked off the App Store for failing to pay up
heh, Readability (the company that charges 30% of revenue to publishers of content) was quoted about Apple's (the company that charges 30% of revenue to publishers of content) policy: it "smacks of greed"
The comparison here is how much of anything it takes to make $1160. That's the unit, everything else is variable. If the reader doesn't understand that, I don't think that counts as psychological games, just ignorance.
Look at the orders of magnitude. None of the adjustments you are proposing are going to change the numbers required by an order of magnitude. You can even ignore the album based lines since the point is the subscription services are not paying the artists. Bands that get listened to 4M times per month on spotify don't care about the $1160 that brings in.
That link really misrepresents the state of the industry.
First of all, most artists who create their own CDs don't make anywhere near $8 per CD. Having a CD produced varies greatly but the less you produce the more it costs per CD. Many artists go for short runs when they are starting out but they still have to shell out a couple of hundred bucks for 100 CDs.
If you are shooting to make minimum wage and you have to sell 147/month (or more since you say they make less), you might want to press more than 100 at a time.
Secondly, they put single track sales on the same chart as whole album sales. This is comparing apples to oranges. In order to convert the two you'd have to at least multiply the track price by the average tracks per album. On iTunes, at least, the assumption is that there will be at least 10 tracks per album - if you look at the chart this means that the track download approximately matches the album download.
I don't really see what you are saying here. The chart says you have to sell a certain number of whole albums (with any number of tracks), or you have to sell a certain number of individual tracks.
Lastly, the figures for album download and track download represent what might be a typical deal for an artist with a major label but the fact is there are a lot of independent labels out there that are little more than a group of artists who formed a label for the purpose of selling songs in marketplaces like iTunes. These independent labels take little, if anything from the artist so the artist ends up making close to 30% from a sale.
This means that on a $9.99 album the artist would make close to $3. If you look on the chart that would place selling an album through iTunes well above the $1.00 they would get from selling a retail album CD (high end royalty deal). At those rates they would have to sell approximately 390 albums a month through iTunes in order to make minimum wage, far better than most of the other methods in the article.
so you are saying they didn't list every possible combination of artist/label/independent. I missed where they claimed to have done that. Just imagine an extra entry between the second and third line.
Basically that article follows the old saying, "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics." Yes, streaming music does make an artist less per unit than other sales and, yes, if you do everything yourself you can get a larger cut. What it ignores are the gains you get from taking a smaller cut but joining a larger distribution model that gets your music out there and listened to.
It shows precisely how much you are going to have to benefit from that larger distribution model in order to make the same amount doing other things. Most bands will probably chose more than one way to offer their music. If I were a musician I'd stay away from spotify.
that's also assuming that the 30% isn't covering some service that the iTunes store is providing that they are paying now anyway, like credit card processing.
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RMS will die slowly of a twisted ankle in the woods while talking to a 911 operator on his hand built cellphone, unable to sufficiently describe his location.
that went well for them :D
oops... TIME and CNN, not just CNN
at the end of each paragraph.
That's smart. Apple charges $5 for new Xcode until Lion comes out so you are going to stop using Xcode3 and start using an IDE for entirely different processors?
Barnes and Noble can hope for further revenue from book purchases and sell the hardware at a loss.
It was 3 models at first: iMac, PowerBook, & PowerMac; the iBook didn't come for a while.
Apple doesn't do anything for subscriptions except payment processing
And shielding the subscriber from giving up their personal information to the publisher.
In the same way Apple doesn't charge, they pay.
I fail to see the difference, perhaps I'm ignorant.
I will admit that I could be ignorant. I'm not deperate.
Readability takes 30% of the money they make and passes 70% on to publishers. That's what their website says: "70% of all Readability membership fees go directly to writers and publishers." https://www.readability.com/publishers. Did they change that and not change their site?
Readability was kicked off the App Store for failing to pay up
heh, Readability (the company that charges 30% of revenue to publishers of content) was quoted about Apple's (the company that charges 30% of revenue to publishers of content) policy: it "smacks of greed"
I'm not the target market.
*ding*ding*ding*ding*ding*
oh yeah, I misread that the first time.
"idea of Pad computing" is an overstatement
They got through it by agreeing to not sell music... Untile they started iTunes and the whole issue came back...
It also came back in the system 7 days when they added Sound Manager. That's why one of the system chimes is named "sosumi"
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/24/early_apple_sound_de.html
ha ha ha
NASA didn't innovate anything (take old episodes of Star Trek for example)
Steve Jobs, and Jonny Ive, and Tim Cook, and ..., and ...
plus some luck
plus some other things.
It's not nearly as simple as just about everyone seems to present it.
or whatever the name would be based on who Jobs could convince to buy NeXT?
you know, assuming all sorts of variables
you first
this isn't a rumor
you can upgrade to 1680-by-1050 on the 15"
yeah right, with that constant hiss?
The comparison here is how much of anything it takes to make $1160. That's the unit, everything else is variable. If the reader doesn't understand that, I don't think that counts as psychological games, just ignorance.
Look at the orders of magnitude. None of the adjustments you are proposing are going to change the numbers required by an order of magnitude. You can even ignore the album based lines since the point is the subscription services are not paying the artists. Bands that get listened to 4M times per month on spotify don't care about the $1160 that brings in.
That link really misrepresents the state of the industry.
First of all, most artists who create their own CDs don't make anywhere near $8 per CD. Having a CD produced varies greatly but the less you produce the more it costs per CD. Many artists go for short runs when they are starting out but they still have to shell out a couple of hundred bucks for 100 CDs.
If you are shooting to make minimum wage and you have to sell 147/month (or more since you say they make less), you might want to press more than 100 at a time.
Secondly, they put single track sales on the same chart as whole album sales. This is comparing apples to oranges. In order to convert the two you'd have to at least multiply the track price by the average tracks per album. On iTunes, at least, the assumption is that there will be at least 10 tracks per album - if you look at the chart this means that the track download approximately matches the album download.
I don't really see what you are saying here. The chart says you have to sell a certain number of whole albums (with any number of tracks), or you have to sell a certain number of individual tracks.
Lastly, the figures for album download and track download represent what might be a typical deal for an artist with a major label but the fact is there are a lot of independent labels out there that are little more than a group of artists who formed a label for the purpose of selling songs in marketplaces like iTunes. These independent labels take little, if anything from the artist so the artist ends up making close to 30% from a sale.
This means that on a $9.99 album the artist would make close to $3. If you look on the chart that would place selling an album through iTunes well above the $1.00 they would get from selling a retail album CD (high end royalty deal). At those rates they would have to sell approximately 390 albums a month through iTunes in order to make minimum wage, far better than most of the other methods in the article.
so you are saying they didn't list every possible combination of artist/label/independent. I missed where they claimed to have done that. Just imagine an extra entry between the second and third line.
Basically that article follows the old saying, "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics." Yes, streaming music does make an artist less per unit than other sales and, yes, if you do everything yourself you can get a larger cut. What it ignores are the gains you get from taking a smaller cut but joining a larger distribution model that gets your music out there and listened to.
It shows precisely how much you are going to have to benefit from that larger distribution model in order to make the same amount doing other things. Most bands will probably chose more than one way to offer their music. If I were a musician I'd stay away from spotify.
I think artists would love $0.01/play from last.fm considering they are actually getting around $0.00075/play
that's also assuming that the 30% isn't covering some service that the iTunes store is providing that they are paying now anyway, like credit card processing.