From Lazlo Nibble Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 20:59
From Lazlo Nibble Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 20:59
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:55:15AM +0000, Rodney Perkins wrote: > Simple market laws also show that if the supply is smaller than the demand, > you get MPEGs and CD-Rs distributed across the world and you get nothing. > People are eventually going to realize that while selling small quantities > at high prices increases cash flow, it ain't no way to sustain a business. On the contrary, you can sustain a business just fine by producing a large number of very limited pressings. This is Fax's business model, and I don't see them going away anytime soon. On the other hand, the history of the music business is littered with labels that overpressed stuff they couldn't sell and went under as a result. You can argue against limited pressings from a lot of standpoints, but the cashflow standpoint ain't one of them. They don't produce a *huge* flow, but they produce a *steady* one, which matters more. -- ::: Lazlo (xxxxx@xxxx.xxx; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists