Comments on: My Evil Comic Book http://www.openbusiness.cc/2005/11/25/my-evil-comic-book/ the Open Business Project Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:42:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: christian http://www.openbusiness.cc/2005/11/25/my-evil-comic-book/comment-page-1/#comment-30 christian Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:42:08 +0000 http://www.openbusiness.cc/2005/11/25/my-evil-comic-book/#comment-30 I guess I have to agree with Jamie on this one - the relationship between quality and cost is not correlated as you might think, or seem to suggest. People donate for a good cause, but donating for your living because you made some songs in low quality available online seems a poor incentive. Give more and you will get more attention, which is the currency that will help you getting more people to come to your concerts etc etc.... I guess I have to agree with Jamie on this one – the relationship between quality and cost is not correlated as you might think, or seem to suggest. People donate for a good cause, but donating for your living because you made some songs in low quality available online seems a poor incentive.
Give more and you will get more attention, which is the currency that will help you getting more people to come to your concerts etc etc….

]]> By: Jamie http://www.openbusiness.cc/2005/11/25/my-evil-comic-book/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Jamie Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:58:01 +0000 http://www.openbusiness.cc/2005/11/25/my-evil-comic-book/#comment-29 Do you think it would make any difference if you just offered CD-quality (>192k, say) for free? With a group I'm involved with, Antifamily (www.antifamily.org) the producer basically makes all the tracks available at decent quality -- and people buy the CDs anyway. I think this might be because they're all limited edition, with special hand printed covers and so on. Another thing worth thinking about is vinyl. Whatever quality you've offered online, people always want vinyl. You have to organise yourself to put it out, but we've sold every copy we've made, I believe, so far. What we're getting to here is the question of the relation between virtual/free economies and physical/pay. Whether the online economy can generate enough excitement to drive sales to the physical channel. I even wonder that putting the highest possible quality files up would generate more, not less sales in this respect. Worth experimenting with. Do you think it would make any difference if you just offered CD-quality (>192k, say) for free? With a group I’m involved with, Antifamily (www.antifamily.org) the producer basically makes all the tracks available at decent quality — and people buy the CDs anyway. I think this might be because they’re all limited edition, with special hand printed covers and so on. Another thing worth thinking about is vinyl. Whatever quality you’ve offered online, people always want vinyl. You have to organise yourself to put it out, but we’ve sold every copy we’ve made, I believe, so far.

What we’re getting to here is the question of the relation between virtual/free economies and physical/pay. Whether the online economy can generate enough excitement to drive sales to the physical channel. I even wonder that putting the highest possible quality files up would generate more, not less sales in this respect. Worth experimenting with.

]]> By: Jeff Albert http://www.openbusiness.cc/2005/11/25/my-evil-comic-book/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Jeff Albert Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:22:56 +0000 http://www.openbusiness.cc/2005/11/25/my-evil-comic-book/#comment-28 I did this with my recent jazz album. Offered the whole thing as a free download, with the higher audio quality CD available for purchase, and a donate if you like button. No one has donated, and few have bought the CD, but the free download has been popular. I did this with my recent jazz album. Offered the whole thing as a free download, with the higher audio quality CD available for purchase, and a donate if you like button. No one has donated, and few have bought the CD, but the free download has been popular.

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