Comment Re:$0.99 ?? (Score 1) 322
>I'm not suggesting that it's as hard to make an album as it is to write a book
This would depend on the book or alblum. Lets compare a Stephen King book to Sgt. Pepper's lonely heart's club. I bet it was harder to make the alblum.
I am working on an alblum now. It sometimes takes over a year of hard work to produce an alblum from concept to finish. Books also can take over a year. (Witness the Oxford English Dictionary)
Anything worth while does. it's not just the recording process that makes the artistic work, it's writing lyrics, then the music, then arranging it, then filling it out with other instruments, producing the song (dealing with all of the people psychologically to get the best out of everyone, and "making it happen"), mixing it, reararranging, pre-master mixing, then mastering. Lets not forget about the risk and monetary investment.
All of this takes time, creativity, other people's time and creativity, and substantial monetary investment.
I think any worthwhile creative work which someone works on for a year and finishes should have both a nominal price, and some sort of copy protection.
It is a tangible good that has value. If a book were a PDF would that make it equally tangible to an MP3? Any more valuable? The MP3 actually has more information in it. Look at the file size! A five minute uncompressed 24/96 wave would undoubtably contain more information than an Oxford Dictionary PDF.
A hardbound book copy costs a lot more to produce than an mp3 copy. There's paper, leather cover, binding, the rent on the machines that printed it, transport, storage, trucking, editing, proofreading, sometimes illustration and font work. $40 for this is justifiable, if the binding is high quality. Charging $10 for the PDF isn't. That PDF costs nothing to produce, in terms of logistics and distribution.
I don't think there is a hard and fast rule about how much work a book or alblum takes. In fact the value doesn't reflect the amount of work put into it. They aren't even related. An idiot could take his entire lifetime to write a book but it wouldn't be more "valuable" than a When the Levee Breaks mp3, at least not to me.
I think .39 per mp3 is a fair deal. Think about bang for the buck. If you listen to it 20 times, that's almost 2 hours of entertainment for $.39.
But it should have some serious copy protection. You have to pay for the bandwidth at both ends, the artist and people that paid for the artist to record also need to get paid.
my 2 cents...
neilio
This would depend on the book or alblum. Lets compare a Stephen King book to Sgt. Pepper's lonely heart's club. I bet it was harder to make the alblum.
I am working on an alblum now. It sometimes takes over a year of hard work to produce an alblum from concept to finish. Books also can take over a year. (Witness the Oxford English Dictionary)
Anything worth while does. it's not just the recording process that makes the artistic work, it's writing lyrics, then the music, then arranging it, then filling it out with other instruments, producing the song (dealing with all of the people psychologically to get the best out of everyone, and "making it happen"), mixing it, reararranging, pre-master mixing, then mastering. Lets not forget about the risk and monetary investment.
All of this takes time, creativity, other people's time and creativity, and substantial monetary investment.
I think any worthwhile creative work which someone works on for a year and finishes should have both a nominal price, and some sort of copy protection.
It is a tangible good that has value. If a book were a PDF would that make it equally tangible to an MP3? Any more valuable? The MP3 actually has more information in it. Look at the file size! A five minute uncompressed 24/96 wave would undoubtably contain more information than an Oxford Dictionary PDF.
A hardbound book copy costs a lot more to produce than an mp3 copy. There's paper, leather cover, binding, the rent on the machines that printed it, transport, storage, trucking, editing, proofreading, sometimes illustration and font work. $40 for this is justifiable, if the binding is high quality. Charging $10 for the PDF isn't. That PDF costs nothing to produce, in terms of logistics and distribution.
I don't think there is a hard and fast rule about how much work a book or alblum takes. In fact the value doesn't reflect the amount of work put into it. They aren't even related. An idiot could take his entire lifetime to write a book but it wouldn't be more "valuable" than a When the Levee Breaks mp3, at least not to me.
I think
But it should have some serious copy protection. You have to pay for the bandwidth at both ends, the artist and people that paid for the artist to record also need to get paid.
my 2 cents...
neilio
