Comment Thanks for all the replies (Score 1) 94
Wow, you all have given us a lot to chew on. A few points:
By "Non-transferrable" I meant the download link, not the digital music itself.
Yes we are the www.thejennifers.com, and because we are including the Robyn Hitchcock cover on our new CD we are learning what's involved with getting the proper license to distribute (on CD and digitally) it from the publishing company. We do already get our stuff distributed to the big boys (iTunes etc.) through the wonderful CDBaby.
For selling directly, it looks like something like osCommerce may work - basically a shopping cart for downloads, if we can make the overhead-per-transaction work. This won't be the end-all of our sales, but we'd like to be able to give people who want to buy DRM-free music - with the $$ going to the band - an avenue to do so. We're actually OK with people sharing mp3's - it helps spread the word. So maybe even a paypal tip jar would suffice.
I was suprised to find so few bands selling mp3's directly this way. I really think it's the future of music sales. Thanks again for all the tips.
And no, we hopefully won't be visited by the RIAA - we own all the rights to our music - songwriting, publishing and recording.
-J
By "Non-transferrable" I meant the download link, not the digital music itself.
Yes we are the www.thejennifers.com, and because we are including the Robyn Hitchcock cover on our new CD we are learning what's involved with getting the proper license to distribute (on CD and digitally) it from the publishing company. We do already get our stuff distributed to the big boys (iTunes etc.) through the wonderful CDBaby.
For selling directly, it looks like something like osCommerce may work - basically a shopping cart for downloads, if we can make the overhead-per-transaction work. This won't be the end-all of our sales, but we'd like to be able to give people who want to buy DRM-free music - with the $$ going to the band - an avenue to do so. We're actually OK with people sharing mp3's - it helps spread the word. So maybe even a paypal tip jar would suffice.
I was suprised to find so few bands selling mp3's directly this way. I really think it's the future of music sales. Thanks again for all the tips.
And no, we hopefully won't be visited by the RIAA - we own all the rights to our music - songwriting, publishing and recording.
-J
