Idea for website designers - by Emperor TAR-1 on 12:51 03 Sep 2003
an idea for someone who can put it together.
An Idea for Music Distribution
C. D. Moulton ©9/1/03
There's been a lot about music distribution lately, mainly along the lines that there is too much piracy, with the counter-argument that people are getting sick of paying the price of a CD when there is seldom more than one thing on it they care to listen to. There are few sinles available anymore, and they're simply too expensive for a single number.
We're in a new age. We'll need some innovations in the music business to keep it from getting worse and worse. A new way to distribute is needed that combines convenience and the ability to only purchase those things one cares to hear.
I feel the solution is simple, and that everything basic is already in place, waiting for someone with a little sense of the enterpreneur about them.
The idea is a combination of things, but mostly a way to accomplish exactly what is needed in a way that will keep the recording industry healthy, the artists healthy, and utilize today's computer networks.
First, there is a system in place in the publishing field that places units in major bookstores where the buyer simply goes to a comp terminal and orders POD books, pays for them right there through the system already established on the net, and the book is mailed to them or to the bookstore for them to pick up. The purchaser orders only the books desired.
While many of those systems operate through Amazon and so forth, the buyer can also go to the website of an author or a publisher directly to order through the same process. The system is open for use by anyone who has a credit/debit card or who is registered with a server for payment (PayPal, etc.).
People download things daily, everything from expensive programs to freebies, from music to books, and almost any informatio one can imagine. It's a system already in place.
Why not combine a couple of things, and make music available in a like fashion, at like savings, yet through a volume distribution center that keeps automatic track of every detail, collects and disperses funds directly to the industry producer AND to the artist, and keeps records of trends, areas, and complete demographics?
All this requires is a bit of cooperation among music companies and independents to save their own businesses. If they don't start to do something along these lines, I think they're doomed, because they will totally lose control.
My proposal is simple: Have central (or even at-home through the family comp) terminals where each number is listed singly. This can be alphabetically, or/and by company. One inserts a credit card (or arranges through the established servers on the home comp) into a slot and selects as many singles as desired on a keyboard, then downloads them to a music CD-R they supply for download. A price of one dollar per selection would result in millions of sales per day at a cost to all concerned of far less than is now the case. Polls show people would be more than willing to pay one dollar per selection, and most would download more than ten selections at one session.
This idea would take very little promotion with the public, as they are already familiar with the method, it is only for someone to provide the service.
Simply have a complete clearinghouse site for recordings, even music videos. That can be worldwide, establish outlet comps w/CD burners in music stores and/or bookstores, department stores, and other places that sell music or music paraphernalia, arrange for the acceptance of credit cards or other payment, connect it to home computer download, and you're in business. 50 cents to the publisher, ten cents to the artist, five cents to the writer/arranger, five cents to the record/whatever store, ten cents to the crdeit card/payment handler, and twenty cents to the site. Applicable sales tax extra.
Everyone makes more than with today's deals, there's no hassle, it can be automated, and the quality of music will improve. A company can put all their old recordings on the site and will find area sales when the oldies stations play them. These are sales that would never occur if a person had to purchase an entire album.
Many people who illegally download things from the net say they would not do that if they could get the music they want at a reasonable price, and a poll shows that one dollar per selection is in that range.
The problem here is only in getting competing recording companies to cooperate. It's that, or they will see a steady decline in sales, should they insist on perpetuating the outmoded system they're on today.
The mistake of not educating the public about the service, as has happened with the e-publishers, must not be made. It is fortunate that most people are already aware of downloading, so it would simply be a matter of informing them of the service. Once it is established, it will perpetuate itself through advertising at the download sites or on music forums and websites.
The only side-expense the site would incur would be the one cent per to me!
an idea for someone who can put it together.
An Idea for Music Distribution
C. D. Moulton ©9/1/03
There's been a lot about music distribution lately, mainly along the lines that there is too much piracy, with the counter-argument that people are getting sick of paying the price of a CD when there is seldom more than one thing on it they care to listen to. There are few sinles available anymore, and they're simply too expensive for a single number.
We're in a new age. We'll need some innovations in the music business to keep it from getting worse and worse. A new way to distribute is needed that combines convenience and the ability to only purchase those things one cares to hear.
I feel the solution is simple, and that everything basic is already in place, waiting for someone with a little sense of the enterpreneur about them.
The idea is a combination of things, but mostly a way to accomplish exactly what is needed in a way that will keep the recording industry healthy, the artists healthy, and utilize today's computer networks.
First, there is a system in place in the publishing field that places units in major bookstores where the buyer simply goes to a comp terminal and orders POD books, pays for them right there through the system already established on the net, and the book is mailed to them or to the bookstore for them to pick up. The purchaser orders only the books desired.
While many of those systems operate through Amazon and so forth, the buyer can also go to the website of an author or a publisher directly to order through the same process. The system is open for use by anyone who has a credit/debit card or who is registered with a server for payment (PayPal, etc.).
People download things daily, everything from expensive programs to freebies, from music to books, and almost any informatio one can imagine. It's a system already in place.
Why not combine a couple of things, and make music available in a like fashion, at like savings, yet through a volume distribution center that keeps automatic track of every detail, collects and disperses funds directly to the industry producer AND to the artist, and keeps records of trends, areas, and complete demographics?
All this requires is a bit of cooperation among music companies and independents to save their own businesses. If they don't start to do something along these lines, I think they're doomed, because they will totally lose control.
My proposal is simple: Have central (or even at-home through the family comp) terminals where each number is listed singly. This can be alphabetically, or/and by company. One inserts a credit card (or arranges through the established servers on the home comp) into a slot and selects as many singles as desired on a keyboard, then downloads them to a music CD-R they supply for download. A price of one dollar per selection would result in millions of sales per day at a cost to all concerned of far less than is now the case. Polls show people would be more than willing to pay one dollar per selection, and most would download more than ten selections at one session.
This idea would take very little promotion with the public, as they are already familiar with the method, it is only for someone to provide the service.
Simply have a complete clearinghouse site for recordings, even music videos. That can be worldwide, establish outlet comps w/CD burners in music stores and/or bookstores, department stores, and other places that sell music or music paraphernalia, arrange for the acceptance of credit cards or other payment, connect it to home computer download, and you're in business. 50 cents to the publisher, ten cents to the artist, five cents to the writer/arranger, five cents to the record/whatever store, ten cents to the crdeit card/payment handler, and twenty cents to the site. Applicable sales tax extra.
Everyone makes more than with today's deals, there's no hassle, it can be automated, and the quality of music will improve. A company can put all their old recordings on the site and will find area sales when the oldies stations play them. These are sales that would never occur if a person had to purchase an entire album.
Many people who illegally download things from the net say they would not do that if they could get the music they want at a reasonable price, and a poll shows that one dollar per selection is in that range.
The problem here is only in getting competing recording companies to cooperate. It's that, or they will see a steady decline in sales, should they insist on perpetuating the outmoded system they're on today.
The mistake of not educating the public about the service, as has happened with the e-publishers, must not be made. It is fortunate that most people are already aware of downloading, so it would simply be a matter of informing them of the service. Once it is established, it will perpetuate itself through advertising at the download sites or on music forums and websites.
The only side-expense the site would incur would be the one cent per to me!
Idea for website designers - by Brad on 15:43 03 Sep 2003
Related article.
That is pretty similar to what iTunes and Buy.com are doing with music downloads. You can buy the song, download it, and even burn it to disc a number of times.
I do think that music stores and bookstores will start changing radically as POD becomes more popular.
The music and book publishers have to figure out a distribution system that they can control and profit from and that the public will use. They waited too long on music and endangered themselves because free downloading got a foothold.
Related article.
That is pretty similar to what iTunes and Buy.com are doing with music downloads. You can buy the song, download it, and even burn it to disc a number of times.
I do think that music stores and bookstores will start changing radically as POD becomes more popular.
The music and book publishers have to figure out a distribution system that they can control and profit from and that the public will use. They waited too long on music and endangered themselves because free downloading got a foothold.
Idea for website designers - by Brad on 12:33 08 Sep 2003
Article about how Virgin Megastores in the UK will start allowing downloads of singles and undercut their nearest competitor without any subscription fee. This is much like Apple iTunes.
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| LONDON (Reuters) - Virgin Megastores said on Monday it will turn to the Internet to resuscitate demand for the downtrodden music single by introducing Europe's cheapest music download service yet. |
Article about how Virgin Megastores in the UK will start allowing downloads of singles and undercut their nearest competitor without any subscription fee. This is much like Apple iTunes.